How NewPipe increases the live window duration of YouTube live videos?

[SurajBahadur]

If we play a live video of YouTube on android exoplayer by using hlsManifestUrl then the live window duration is of 30 seconds and In the new pipe library duration increases by 1 hour from 30 seconds.

can anyone tell how the NewPipe is modifying the duration?

[AudricV]

We use the HLS manifest of the iOS YouTube app, which returns live windows from 30 seconds up to 1 hour (ANDROID and WEB clients' ones are still used as a fallback if there is no manifest provided on the iOS client (this is unlikely to happen) or if the fetching of its player response fails). See #680 and #780 for more details.

Using the DASH manifest of YouTube, you should be able to have a live window which goes up to 4 hours, even if the first version of them is broken and pretty huge, that's the reason why it is not used.

However, I discovered recently that newer versions of these manifests are available, and can be get using a mpd_version parameter on the DASH manifest URL (the desktop website client uses the version 5, it goes up to version 7). This parameter should be added in the extractor soon.

By the way, that's NewPipe and not new pipe.

[SurajBahadur]

We use the HLS manifest of the iOS YouTube app, which returns live windows from 30 seconds up to 1 hour (ANDROID and WEB clients' ones are still used as a fallback if there is no manifest provided on the iOS client (this is unlikely to happen) or if the fetching of its player response fails). See #680 and #780 for more details.

Using the DASH manifest of YouTube, you should be able to have a live window which goes up to 4 hours, even if the first version of them is broken and pretty huge, that's the reason why it is not used.

However, I discovered recently that newer versions of these manifests are available, and can be get using a mpd_version parameter on the DASH manifest URL (the desktop website client uses the version 5, it goes up to version 7). This parameter should be added in the extractor soon.

By the way, that's NewPipe and not new pipe.

Thank you @AudricV