vlc not playing youtube videos and i keep on getting http 403 errors

[flyer2010]

Lately, whenever I try to play YouTube videos on VLC on my Mac, I get an error message that says, "Unable to open MRL." When I checked the log, I found an HTTP 403 error. Can anyone provide suggestions on how to fix this problem?

[Baer4]

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