vimeo / vimeo/vimeo-networking-java
Looks to be a server issue... again
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- Kotlin
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Description
No one responded to my ticket last time, when there was some kind of outage, although I see that this project is still being worked on. Looks like no one has closed a ticket since Aug 2021... that's not good. How can a company the size of Vimeo not have any dev support?
@anthonycr / @howardrigberg do you do any kind of support?
The issue:
As of today as I started getting emails from users of my app that they can no longer play videos... again.
Appears to be a server issue... again.
Everything loads, but it appears that the stream is corrupt or something? As you can see below there is a 410 response code when playing the video. Which appears to be...
The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 410 Gone client error response code indicates that access to the target resource is no longer available at the origin server and that this condition is likely to be permanent
The Vimeo API works fine on iOS, this seems to be an Android issue.
I haven't touched my app since the last time there was an issue with the Vimeo server, everything was working fine, so this is not a problem on my end here.
When I put the link that it spits out as what should be the download link to play the video into my browser it says

When I get the link that the iOS app spits out and paste it into my browser, it plays the video.
This URL scheme, which android uses, appears to be down:
https://player.vimeo.com/progressive_redirect/download/ .....
E/ExoPlayerImplInternal: Playback error
com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:579)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:246)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 410
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultHttpDataSource.open(DefaultHttpDataSource.java:383)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:201)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.ProgressiveMediaPeriod$ExtractingLoadable.load(ProgressiveMediaPeriod.java:1015)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:415)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:923)
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Research direction
The issue names no repository file, test, or implementation entry point. Start by reproducing Android playback and comparing the Android progressive_redirect URL with the iOS URL, using the reported ExoPlayer 410 stack trace; done would require a confirmed diagnosis and an identified project change or server resolution.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- api, mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 10/100