Newpipe: Allow playing DRM content like Youtube Movies

[Hunter9888x]

Exception

• __User Action:__ requested stream
• __Request:__ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9VTQnPa5c
• __Content Language:__ US
• __Service:__ YouTube
• __Version:__ 0.19.3
• __OS:__ Linux Android 10 - 29

needs exoplayer
https://exoplayer.dev/

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo$StreamExtractException: Could not get any stream. See error variable to get further details.
    at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.extractStreams(StreamInfo.java:192)
    at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:70)
    at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:62)
    at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getStreamInfo$3(ExtractorHelper.java:116)
    at org.schabi.newpipe.util.-$$Lambda$ExtractorHelper$5fJcha6Sq5APJBLdG6osaJby-mc.call(Unknown Source:4)
    at io.reactivex.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:44)
    at io.reactivex.Single.subscribe(Single.java:3438)
    at io.reactivex.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)
    at io.reactivex.Single.subscribe(Single.java:3438)
    at io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)
    at io.reactivex.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:4154)
    at io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)
    at io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)
    at io.reactivex.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)
    at io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)
    at io.reactivex.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:14479)
    at io.reactivex.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)
    at io.reactivex.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:4154)
    at io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)
    at io.reactivex.Single.subscribe(Single.java:3438)
    at io.reactivex.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)
    at io.reactivex.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:578)
    at io.reactivex.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:66)
    at io.reactivex.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:57)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:301)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:919)

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[gkeegan]

See #3203. This feature is not possible due to DRM.

[Stypox]

Theoretically this is possible, though it would be complex: https://exoplayer.dev/drm.html

[TheAssassin]

As mentioned on IRC, I am not a fan of any DRM support in NewPipe. I think we should not support this kind of broken concept, feeding the content industry that way.

Also, it'll make devices more identifiable again to have anything like that in place.

If you have to watch DRM-ed content, please do so on YouTube directly, but NewPipe certainly should not implement any such feature.