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Okay. I have no idea. Several hours later, VLC wouldn't play Youtube videos. Today, I decided to try deleting the youtube.lua file, leaving only the youtube.luac file, and it's working again. Doesn't make much sense.

Not sure if this is an appropriate fix, but it seemed to work for me. Not sure why it stopped working, but youtube.luac included in the updates (when opened in Notepad++) seemed to be borked. I'm not a programmer or savvy, so I might just be mistaken. Any rate... what I did was create a copy of the ...