Point of Distinction: For one to make a statement (explicit or implied) that NO youtube vids play, would require them to try every vid...
...I understand that, but you are the one that posted that Subject saying "no youtube vids are playing", you made the claim -- I was just clarifying, that it wasn't actually all vids not working. I didn't expect you to have actually tried all of them.
It working on "some vids" is kind of pointless...
...this wasn't VLC's fault. YouTube changed their code to make it harder to get the real/working stream URL...someone (or several people) in the open source community found a fix & I implemented it in VLC's youtube.lua. I Googled enough to find an open source project that had working code.
Avg users won't try 100 or 1000 vids that fail, before abandoning a player...
...again not VLC's fault. No reason to abandon a player for YouTube causing the problem.
it took another open source player's devs all of ~ 1.5 days to adjust to the latest changes that google made
...OK, so they were faster, great! So was the open source dev whose source code I found. He, according to his Changelog, had been fighting YouTube for at least a couple months, trying to keep up with their changes -- I'm just not sure why it took so long for VLC to be affected (broken) by the changes, if YouTube had been changing things for months.
Maybe that player's code is much simpler to change.
...not exactly related, but I have to say, I hate editing lua code...I only put up with it cuz VLC embeds lua. I really wish VLC would embed JavaScript...then I could make a youtube.js & be done with lua. My point is: if VLC would embed JavaScript, it would make it MUCH easier for ME to keep youtube.js (a theoretical future file) updated.
"why the f*** do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?" — jawed (2013) (about YouTube's new requirement of Google+)
youtube.lua — Play YouTube videos in VLC!
Updated: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 --- 1/15/15, 7:19:19pm EST
forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=111977&p=379147#p379147
Sigh, the above can't be a link: "You cannot use certain BBCodes: [url]."...so, I can't even link back to a post on this forum?
How about this: can long-term/trusted users be allowed links in sigs?