[BUG] Controller occasionally fails to initialize and hangs on isReady = false

[mongy910]

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Package

youtube_player_flutter

What happened?

I'm initializing a YouTubePlayerController for use in a YoutubePlayer with the following flags:

controller = YoutubePlayerController(
      initialVideoId: widget.content.videoId,
      flags: YoutubePlayerFlags(
        hideThumbnail:
            true,
        hideControls: true,
        enableCaption: false,
        autoPlay: true,
      ),
    );

90% of the time this works perfectly fine and the video loads as expected. However, once in a while, the controller will fail to load the video and will report a status of isReady = false permanently.

I've tried calling reload() if the controller is not ready in an attempt at implementing retry functionality, but it seems as if reload() is broken in the current version, as the player just shows the YouTube homepage instead of loading the initial video again.

What is the expected behaviour?

Controller loads all the time, and reload() properly refreshes the video.

How to reproduce?

I'm using version 9.0.2 of the package with flutter 3.22.2

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