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ronniegordon: What operating system are you using? Windows XP? Vista? Windows 7? Mac OS 10? Linux ??

Try the nightly builds? Or grab the youtube script from the nightly builds (even if you're not updating fully) I dunno, but it seems that there's been a shift to using complied lua scripts (.luac) that are built when VLC is compiled.. Perhaps compiled scripts are used in preference to .lua scripts? ...

Just checked the trac (http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4608), looks like it's been fixed and will be in VLC 1.1.9

- seems to be in the nightly builds too.

Thanks VLC team.

Cheers,
ObM..

Here's the LUA script that I'm using:

http://outbreakmonkey.org/youtubelua.zip

Unzip it to youtube.lua in the lua directory (take a copy of your original first might be a good idea).

Cheers,
ObM.

We had the same problem, it just started this week.. Seems that YouTube have started adding an escaped unicode sequence (\u0026) in-place of the & (ampersand) character in their flash variables. I've posted a patch in trac (http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4608) If you want to get your hand a...