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I have discovered that you can actually bypass the lua script for getting the Youtube video URL. By default the lua script only gets the highest quality video which is often in webm format. Once you get the Youtube video URL you can use the streaming wizard in VLC to find what command line you will ...

OK, I have fixed this myself. The key here is the creative use of demuxers, without using sout at all: vlc --intf=rc someplaylist.xspf :demux=playlist,luaplaylist,dump :demuxdump-file=output.webm vlc://quit The first demuxer (playlist) reads the xspf. The xspf contains the http://www.youtube.com/wa...