Is it just me, or VLC can't play YouTube anymore?

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Re: Is it just me, or VLC can't play YouTube anymore?

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 10 Dec 2024 18:55

Does anyone know enough about this to explain how the yt-dlp developers know what the VLC developers don't? (Assuming yt-dlp still works.)
YT-DLP is written in Python3, and VLC uses Lua 5.1, which is much lighter-weight and easier to embed in a program such as VLC, but also a lot more limited and bare-bones as a programming language. So that makes it harder to update VLC.

But the main reason is that everybody here is waiting for someone else to write the fix. Stating the obvious but bugs get fixed when people volunteer fixes, not when people ask about them.
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Re: Is it just me, or VLC can't play YouTube anymore?

Postby drimis216 » 11 Dec 2024 12:21

Hi, Here i make new issue to post effective solutions to fix this problem and add support for yt-dlp, yt-dlp can have some possible problems to import youtube cookies after chrome makes it difficult lock the export of cookies to yt-dlp but this problem does not seem to exist for firefox, some say we have to be logged out of our youtube account for youtube playback to work:

Some solutions to make the dream true of adding support of yt-dlp to VLC:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 47#p547947

in my post i forget to talk about the most impostant tool to add yt-dlp to VLC, i just edited my issue :

i forget the most important tool to add yt-dlp to VLC ! :


A VLC addon for youtube-dl integration.

https://github.com/mjasny/vlc-youtubeDL

and maybe this plugin but doesn't work for me:

https://ys.3dyd.com/help/vlc_plugin/

i use windows 7 os 32 bis after my main computer crashed and Mr Adeii who compiles softwares for windows 7 offered me a specefic customized version of VLC
for my windows 7 OS 32 bits by adding the extension vlc-youtubeDL and other modficiations and finally I could watch youtube videos on VLC!!

https://github.com/adeii/Qt6Win7/releas ... .21-x86.7z

https://github.com/adeii/Qt6Win7/issues/1

at first it didn't work then Mr Adeeii found the problem and tells me:

"Aha. YT-DLP works fine on Win 8. Enable VxKex for it, to works on Win 7 until I found fix:

Found:
Rename https: // github.com/ nicolaasjan/ yt-dlp / releases/download/2024.11.18.065552/yt-dlp_win7_x86.exe
to yt-dlp.exe and copy to \lua\playlist "

youtube-dl.zip
Replace youtube-dl.lua script in \lua\playlist with this one above.
It will try -f "best[height=480]" first, else -f "best[height=360]" to limit yt-dlp download/stream quality. "

https://github.com/adeii/Qt6Win7/issues ... 2489355624

https://github.com/adeii/Qt6Win7/issues ... 2489469266

so by replacing the original yt-dlp with the yt-dlp of Mr Mr Nicolaasjan who had the generosity to compile yt-dlp for windows 7 OS 32 bits following my request because yt-dlp removed recently support for windows 7 os, I was able to enjoy youtube in VLC without buffer or need to install VxKex!

in addition in-between releases let fix quickly the bugs without having to wait stable version !

https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp

We hope pease official VLC will be able to add support for yt-dlp which seems to me to be an essential software to make our beloved VLC even more powerful and universal please!


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