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YT has changed the encoding again in the last 48 hours.

YT has changed the encoding again. Happened in the last 48 hours.

Problem fixed

clean uninstalled VLC

reinstalled

redownloaded the .lua file

renamed and dropped into playlist folder

restarted VLC

What about using the search feature of the forum ?
https://forum.videolan.org/search.php?keywords=youtube

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=160641

The .lua file on Github is 5 mouths old , which is when this same issue happened with YT

Just Happened within the last hour . Was watching a Live stream with VLC when the video froze. Restarted VLC and now getting a unable to connect error. Updated to latest version of VLC and still no joy. VLC does the same on two other computers

Issue fixed -Updated to lastest verison of VLC -Downloaded https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/raw/master/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua?inline=false - Renamed file to " youtube.luac " - dropped file in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist , making sure to move/replace the exist...

Just Started to happen a hour or so ago. I have confirmed this behaviour on another Window computer.