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Ok I have solved my problem. I set up all my win7 installations myself, but apparently there is something flaky with the permissions on one of the systems. I noticed this when I tried editing the youtube.lua file. I do not have permission to change the file, I can only replace the file with one edit...

Ok I have 3 computers with win7 at home. I updated and patched all three. 2 work ok playing a youtube video, but the 3rd one doesnt.

I just tried to play the file using a windows xp machine at a different location. It works fine. I am having trouble with win7 or with my home internet connection. Next I will try an xp machine at my home location. I have tried and failed with 2 different win7 systems.

I just tried vlc-1.1.12-git-win32.exe, same problem.

I read threads about vlc not parsing ampersands, or having unicode parsing errors. Well I'm just trying to open a simple youtube like that doesnt even have any ampersands, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWglWyxFBM Vlc crashes immediately when opening this or any other youtube link. Is th...

Well either that solution does not work, or youtube changed again, or I'm the only one who has a problem now. Is there a place to go to get a working lua file for youtube?