Lost Video Progress

[Ruyeex]

Checklist

• I am able to reproduce the bug with the latest version.
• I am not able to reproduce the bug with the latest version of vanilla NewPipe.
• I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - which I could contribute my information to.
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• This issue contains only one bug.
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Affected version

0.28.2.

Steps to reproduce the bug

Go to Tubular
Watch a video
Stop watching it in the middle of the video either by closing the video or during in the middle of a video on landsape fullscreen.
Rewatch it (It doesn't save the position of the video's record)

Expected behavior

It should have it's position where left on which was the case prior in 0.28.0.

Actual behavior

It restarts the video to 0:00 regardless of the progress you made, the popup is fundamentally broken due of it's function to save it's previous section.

Screenshots/Recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_FAILED_RUNTIME_CHECK] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvpheontBuc
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-02-05T09:32:30.369Z
• Package: org.polymorphicshade.tubular
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.2
• OS: Linux samsung/a52sxqeea/a52sxq:14/UP1A.231005.007/A528BXXUAGXK8:user/release-keys 14 - 34

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Unexpected runtime error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:668)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:230)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:319)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: flush() is valid only at Executing states; currently at Released state

	at android.media.MediaCodec.native_flush(Native Method)
	at android.media.MediaCodec.flush(MediaCodec.java:2504)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.flush(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:236)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.flushCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:907)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.flushOrReleaseCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:900)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.flushOrReinitializeCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:863)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.onPositionReset(MediaCodecRenderer.java:714)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.onPositionReset(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:560)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.BaseRenderer.resetPosition(BaseRenderer.java:183)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.BaseRenderer.resetPosition(BaseRenderer.java:176)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.resetRendererPosition(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1376)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.seekToPeriodPosition(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1354)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.seekToPeriodPosition(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1293)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.seekToInternal(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:525)
	... 4 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 14

Affected device model

Samsung Galaxy A52s

Additional information

The popup error crashes which resets the video as well as by closing it.
My downloading to Tubular is through Obtainium with Github.

[vttc08]

this was fixed in NewPipe recently
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#13195
so the author or you need to merge their change and it should work again

[dftf-stu]

@asandikci : now that Tubular 0.28.4 has been released both on here, and the F-Droid store, I think this ticket can be closed?