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Then It seems mac uses precompiled lua (.luac) and not uncompiled plaintext (.lua).
No idea. I dont use macs. If you have luac on your mac you can try to precompile it. Ask in the mac section.

@colin

Are you using vlc 1.1.10 or 1.1.11 ?

It looks like you are using an old version. Please upgrade.

@Jerbear

Tools-->Messages or Ctrl+M to open Log.
Verbosity = 2 = debugging messages enabled.

Does vlc crash or just not play?

The steps you describe are ok.

If it just doesn't play. I can only think of vlc being blocked by win firewall.
Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh earlier....

Download it from the link above and replace the file under lua\playlists. I doubt debugging output would be of much help to you if you don't even know how to enable it. The script works fine when replaced correctly. If you cant even replace a file what use would debugging output have? PS: almost 200...

AFAIK 18 is 240p stereo and now the lowest available format and is always available. You can also experiment with other numbers in the Line62 statement. Maybe you find something useful. Note to other readers: esco and I are discussing a special version of the youtube lua. If you just want youtube to...

Most likely for those there is no lower fallback available. Restricted content is always problematic.

Most likely they are restricted videos. Those are always problematic in unofficial youtube apps.

sent u a pm with the link.
you should use a better text editor if you cant even make a simple line edit

Actually it does work. It falls back to 240p or 360p for me. but I did not try many videos.

I just did some tests.
You actually can do this:
In Line 62
replace with And it will limit it to 480p and fall back to lower res if 480p is unavailable.

I only tested a few videos, so it (the fallback) is not thoroughly tested.

Actually after looking at the script again, you don't need to change a thing. It's already built in. Just add &fmt=xx to the url where xx is the youtube format code. 18 , 43, 45 are possible numbers but there are others. I think 43 corresponds to 480p. Google is ur friend. I.E. entering http://w...

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I have tested and made sure that a simple copy and paste of the code will work. It worked for others.

It should work with simple cut and paste. It does for me. The indentations are there for a reason. Maybe whatever text editor you use breaks the formatting. I recommend ultraedit on windows. Notepad will do too, though. Wordwrap might cause breakage if saved. For your convenience here is the file i ...

It wont work with latest one unless you use my fixed youtube.lua

lol the last incarnation of this post was a freudian slip lol

freemarket: i dont think they did the changes to block vlc. it looks more like normal api changes.

I made new fix for changes youtube made in the night of Aug 3/4

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=92500&p=307352#p307352

check post above yours. worked all afternoon to fix it. and at lunch i knew nothing of lua script

I fixed youtube.lua. this is my own ugly hack. i never touched lua script before but it works :) --[[ $Id$ Copyright © 2007-2009 the VideoLAN team This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Softw...

OK i got it working. Ugly hack I know. I never touched lua script before: --[[ $Id$ Copyright © 2007-2009 the VideoLAN team This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either ...

It seems I'm too dumb to grasp lua pattern matching or i'm missing something else. Can't get it fully working....where is Pierre?

I already have found one part of the fix. yt changed fmt_url_map to url_encoded_fmt_stream_map. If I adapt youtube.lua all metadata except the (most important one) stream url is correct. Still investigating.

well there is if you increase debug level. Almost all unofficial youtube apps are not working since last night. 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 #...

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)

It is broken again since last night. Latest youtube.lua from git worked for 3 days. Seems they changed their site again
Might be that stupid new survey code.

yep. broken again. this time there is not even an error in the message log :O