CRASH

[naveed]

i am using VLC version 1.1.1.1.1 which is the newest version of VLC, when i wanted to network stream from VLC the programs asked me to put URL of the song that i want to stream from a network but when i have putted the URL and an error taskbar opened saying " VLC media player just crashed Do you want to send a bug report to the developers team"
i have reported the bug but no one has told me how to solve this problem which i really need the community to ask?

[VLC_help]

Can you give us that URL?

[naveed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o

[VLC_help]

Update the Youtube.lua
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=95421&p=316757&hil ... ua#p316757

[naveed]

how can i update the youtube.lua
can you give me a brief discription of how and where can i do this from
how can i find and update the youtube.lua ?

[VLC_help]

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=bl ... outube.lua
download that and replace the old youtube.lua

[cole]

Mine did the same a few days ago but for no apparent reason. I was using Corel Draw at the time. Then when I went to playa video it said it crashed. Now it has the message it gave you everytime and says Windows will let you know when there is a solution. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it off this site again and yet it still is doing the same thing. I tried everything in the FAQ and help, reset preferences, there is no where that says VERBOSITY to increase it. What do I do now? I have spent hours messing with this.

[VLC_help]

cole: so you tried to open Youtube URL with VLC using the NOT-updated youtube.lua?

[cole]

No, if someone can read my reply to the post above hereby the other user, or the other post I put in the forum asking for help under VLC troubleshooting for windows that says "VLC crashes and never opens every time" in which I pasted the message it was giving me, this has nothing to do with youtube for me. I did not have the Internet hooked up at the time it crashed.I was using Corel at the time. The time I use VLC is with netflix dvds that media player won't open due to it not being able to open not copyright protected files by turning on analog protection. That's what it says. I tried to update Windows media Player like it said to do but couldn't for some reason, so in the meantime I asked justanswer and they said use VLC so I went here and now I like it better than Media Player in some ways and it has no trouble at all until now.

But I have now spent yesterday and today trying to get it to work again with no success and tried everything on this forum after searching extensively for a solution.

[naveed]

how can i download that into my computer ?
when i am clicking on the link that you have provided me above it gives me some type of coding which is not something to download but to add into coding of my program...
so now i need to ask wheather i need to download youtube.lua or add the coding into my VLC programming...
how can i add coding into my VLC...

[VLC_help]

how can i download that into my computer ?

Right click the link, select Save link as... (or similar option)

the save it somewhere, and go to lua folder of your VLC installation directory (usually something like C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua), delete the youtube.lua and copy the new one there.

[naveed]

thanks for your help, as my problem has been sorted.

still have one short and last question to ask and that is

what does lua stand for ?

[TypX]

lua is a script language, vlc uses it to parse the html page and find the relevant info to play the video.

[VLC_help]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)