[BUG]: videos won’t play on NVIDIA shield

[rjwinks]

Checklist

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Affected version

25.47

Device Type

Smart TV/Box

Affected Android

SHIELD version 11

Steps to reproduce the bug

1 launch app
2 nothing loads just spinning icon in center

Actual behavior

Nothing loads just spinning icon

Additional information

Device: NVIDIA SHIELD 2019

[shopkeeper1970]

Pretty much having the same issue on my Firestick. Seems like less and less videos are playing than not for some users at least.

[duringleaves]

As of last evening, it takes a long time to load thumbnails, a long time to start video playback which only last a few seconds before stalling again. Standard YouTube app is fine. Most recent version.
Device: NVIDIA Shield

[rjwinks]

I tried to reinstall smart tube beta and now I'm having the same issue as @duringleaves. Takes a long time to start playback, then within a few seconds it stalls. Standard Youtube app is fine for me as well

[rjwinks]

Not sure if it's related at all, or I'm just crazy but I switched my DNS servers from my ISP over to nextdns' and that magically solved all the issues?? But even when I was still using my ISP, smart tube was working fine on my Onn. 4K Pro on the same network, just not my shield. As of now, things seem to be totally back to good

[duringleaves]

Well, son of a gun. I changed to Googles DNS servers on my router and it's fine as well. Hmm... wonder what my ISP was up to...