diff --git a/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java b/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java
index 7d8b14c89..654e09a64 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java
@@ -720,38 +720,40 @@ public class YoutubeStreamExtractor extends StreamExtractor {
         } catch (IOException | ExtractionException e) {
             throw new SubtitlesException("Unable to download player configs", e);
         }
-        final String playerResponse = playerConfig.getObject("args").getString("player_response");
+        final String playerResponse = playerConfig.getObject("args", new JsonObject())
+                .getString("player_response");
 
         final JsonObject captions;
         try {
-            if (!JsonParser.object().from(playerResponse).has("captions")) {
+            if (playerResponse == null || !JsonParser.object().from(playerResponse).has("captions")) {
                 // Captions does not exist
                 return Collections.emptyList();
             }
             captions = JsonParser.object().from(playerResponse).getObject("captions");
         } catch (JsonParserException e) {
-            // Failed to parse subtitles
             throw new SubtitlesException("Unable to parse subtitles listing", e);
         }
 
-        final JsonObject renderer = captions.getObject("playerCaptionsTracklistRenderer");
-        final JsonArray captionsArray = renderer.getArray("captionTracks");
-
+        final JsonObject renderer = captions.getObject("playerCaptionsTracklistRenderer", new JsonObject());
+        final JsonArray captionsArray = renderer.getArray("captionTracks", new JsonArray());
         // todo: use this to apply auto translation to different language from a source language
-        final JsonArray autoCaptionsArray = renderer.getArray("translationLanguages");
+        final JsonArray autoCaptionsArray = renderer.getArray("translationLanguages", new JsonArray());
 
+        // This check is necessary since there may be cases where subtitles metadata do not contain caption track info
+        // e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vpwatutnko
         final int captionsSize = captionsArray.size();
-        // Should not happen, if there is the "captions" object, it should always has some captions in it
         if(captionsSize == 0) return Collections.emptyList();
-        // Obtain the base url, this only needs to be done once
 
         List<SubtitlesInfo> result = new ArrayList<>();
         for (int i = 0; i < captionsSize; i++) {
             final String languageCode = captionsArray.getObject(i).getString("languageCode");
             final String baseUrl = captionsArray.getObject(i).getString("baseUrl");
-            final boolean isAutoGenerated = captionsArray.getObject(i).getString("vssId").startsWith("a.");
+            final String vssId = captionsArray.getObject(i).getString("vssId");
 
-            result.add(new SubtitlesInfo(baseUrl, languageCode, isAutoGenerated));
+            if (languageCode != null && baseUrl != null && vssId != null) {
+                final boolean isAutoGenerated = vssId.startsWith("a.");
+                result.add(new SubtitlesInfo(baseUrl, languageCode, isAutoGenerated));
+            }
         }
 
         return result;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/stream/StreamInfo.java b/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/stream/StreamInfo.java
index 27df6d331..995bfb003 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/stream/StreamInfo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/stream/StreamInfo.java
@@ -321,12 +321,6 @@ public class StreamInfo extends Info {
             streamInfo.addError(new ExtractionException("Couldn't get video only streams", e));
         }
 
-        try {
-            streamInfo.setSubtitles(extractor.getSubtitlesDefault());
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            streamInfo.addError(new ExtractionException("Couldn't get subtitles", e));
-        }
-
         // Lists can be null if a exception was thrown during extraction
         if (streamInfo.getVideoStreams() == null) streamInfo.setVideoStreams(Collections.<VideoStream>emptyList());
         if (streamInfo.getVideoOnlyStreams()== null) streamInfo.setVideoOnlyStreams(Collections.<VideoStream>emptyList());
@@ -425,7 +419,11 @@ public class StreamInfo extends Info {
         } catch (Exception e) {
             streamInfo.addError(e);
         }
-
+        try {
+            streamInfo.setSubtitles(extractor.getSubtitlesDefault());
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            streamInfo.addError(e);
+        }
         streamInfo.setRelatedStreams(ExtractorHelper.getRelatedVideosOrLogError(streamInfo, extractor));
         return streamInfo;
     }