Cannot play any video

[UlyssesZh]

Describe the bug
Cannot play any video.

To Reproduce
Play any video.

Expected behavior
Plays.

Screenshots

General Information:

• Device: Pixel 9
• OS: Android 16 (GrapheneOS)
• Version: 1.22.15
• Invidious-Instance: my private instance (version 2025.09.13-cf019e3, works on web)

Additional context
No response

[Mitkah]

I think the problem ist the API? am I right? But I dont undertstand how i must configure it

[cameronj86]

I've been experiencing the same thing:

1. Playing in my browser instead of clipious works
2. Quirky, but I noticed if I toggle the 'audio only' slider in clipious, wait for it to start, and then toggle the video again, it often eventually plays the video.

Most times I do 1 since I am used to clipious, occasionally I'll do 2 if I plan on watching multiple videos

[cameronj86]

Just fixed it. I had to follow the callout re: video thumbnails not working. For me, thumbnails were working, so I've previously ignored the error, but resolving this issue also resolved every video failing to load at first try.

In my docker container, I had to update the following in invidious' docker compose file:

1. My domain was 192.x.x.x. initially and that worked in the past. I had set up a reverse-proxy so that I can use self-signed certs w/ local addresses, so I had to redirect it to my local domain (yt.lan in my case)
2. Update external port to 443. Basically, when I visit yt.lan, the self-signed cert makes it encrypted traffic, so it goes through port 443, and I had to update so invidious was aware of that. From there, my reverse proxy redirects the traffic to the traditional invidious port on my server (3000)

[UlyssesZh]

I already set them. It does not have an impact for my case.

[cameronj86]

The last suggestion I can think of is to make sure your DASH settings match both Invidious and Clipious.

Initially, I had DASH disabled on my invidious server, but it is turned on my default in Clipious. That too leads to erroring out.