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by jaquesy 956 days ago
I've been using this for years to download YouTube videos when I go on trips, it makes it super easy since you can just share the link directly from YouTube to NewPipe and it'll pop up a neat download UI to select quality and threads to use.

Really great app for that purpose, although I will say I just used ReVanced for general YouTube browsing on my phone.

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I believe the one thing i see lacking for newpipe is viewing livestreams. Revanced is the way to go for a good youtube experience, but i use newpipe for downloading and saving a video offline.
I've watched livestreams in newpipe. A few hours after it ended I used new pipe again to download the whole thing to see the parts I missed (new pipe wouldn't let me rewind to the start of the livestream after I joined)
v0.26.0 (the next release) should support viewing livestreams. See https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/10471
I can view live streams in NewPipe 0.25.2 and I think I airways did.

This is a live stream I just watched to check that it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8

It's a water pool in the Namib desert, so safe for work

Confirmed, with seeking.

There were times in the past where this was not the case, but it was likely 0.24 or before.