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My Windows Movie Maker in XP pro can capture my webcam video but I cannot get VLC 221 to do it. It creates an empty file even though I have spent many hours trying and googling. The last two lines in the debug message are: core debug: no art finder modules matched core debug: art not found for Strea...

On a related issue, my FreeYoutubeDownloader also stopped working.
So, I downloaded the latest version v3.3.89.0 and that fixed it.

Cask -- I just tried your fix and it worked!

You are da man!

The Youtube management are jerks.

lua warning: Error while running script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\youtube.lua, function parse(): ...\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\youtube.lua:92: bad argument #1 to 'gsub' (string expected, got nil) I am now getting this same error and can no longer play any youtube files...

Make sure that you copied the text exactly. Make sure that all the indents are correct and there is no blank line at the beginning and, make sure that there is and EOF after the last "end". When you save the file, the curser should be at the begining of the line following the last "en...

To be more precise, 5 should read

5) Delete the contents of that file, paste in the text that you copied earlier, and save that file.

The patch is easy to install. 1) Go to the link provided by Casketizer. 2) Copy that text file. 3) Launch a text editor and navigate to your vlc directory. 4) Look around and find the playlist folder, then open the file youtube.lua 5) Delete that file, paste in the file that you copied earlier, and ...

Thank you -- Thank you -- Thank you!
That patch worked! I can now play youtube by pasting in the video URL.
I use VLC mainly to watch youtube and two days ago, it stopped working.
When I paste the url into VLC, VLC would crash. I then went to this forum
and found this fix. Thanks again!

Thanks VLC -- That sounds doable.

Thanks for the suggestion. I am not familiar with a usb stick or live linux disc
or how to test audio using them. But, I will do search and try to figure them out.

First, a big thank you to VLC because it is the only player that will play youtube audio on my system. On other players, including my two browsers (Firefox and Chrome) the audio is all static. If I download the youtube file or paste the URL into VLC, it plays perfectly. Here is a brief history of th...