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Greetings. Suddenly as of today, 3 network streams won't play on VLC.
My other streams play fine, and these 3 streams play fine in my browser.
https://streams.greenhost.nl:8006/oudemuziek
https://streams.greenhost.nl:8006/wereldmuziek
https://streams.greenhost.nl:8006/klassiek

(I uninstalled and reinstalled VLC - no joy)

Here's part 1 of the "log" (messages) from my attempt to play one of the above streams.
I need to paste in 2 parts as it exceeds the maximum character length.

**************** LOG STARTS******************

main debug: incoming request - stopping current input
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `mp4a'
main debug: removing module "faad"
mmdevice debug: state changed: 0
wasapi debug: reset
main debug: removing module "samplerate"
main debug: removing module "scaletempo"
main debug: removing module "equalizer"
main debug: removing module "float_mixer"
main debug: keeping audio output
main debug: removing module "adaptive"
main debug: removing module "es"
main debug: removing module "mpeg4audio"
main debug: Program doesn't contain anymore ES
main debug: removing module "record"
main debug: removing module "prefetch"
main debug: removing module "access"
main debug: dead input
main debug: processing request item: wereldmuziek, node: Playlist, skip: 0
main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
main debug: rebuild done - 10 items, index 9
main debug: starting playback of new item
main debug: resyncing on wereldmuziek
main debug: wereldmuziek is at 9
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'wereldmuziek'
main debug: requesting art for new input thread
main debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB
main debug: using timeshift path: C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp
main debug: `https://streams.greenhost.nl:8006/wereldmuziek' gives access `https' demux `any' path `streams.greenhost.nl:8006/wereldmuziek'

***** CONTINUED IN NEXT POST ******

***** LOG CONTINUES *****

main debug: creating demux: access='https' demux='any' location='streams.greenhost.nl:8006/wereldmuziek' file='\\streams.greenhost.nl:8006\wereldmuziek'
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher
main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "https": 15 candidates
main debug: no access_demux modules matched
main debug: creating access: https://streams.greenhost.nl:8006/wereldmuziek
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher
main debug: (path: \\streams.greenhost.nl:8006\wereldmuziek)
main debug: looking for access module matching "https": 27 candidates
main debug: no meta fetcher modules matched
main debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art
main debug: looking for tls client module matching "any": 1 candidates
gnutls debug: using GnuTLS version 3.6.15
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac
lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac
lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac
lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac
lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac
main debug: no art finder modules matched
main debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher
main debug: no meta fetcher modules matched
main debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac
main debug: no art finder modules matched
gnutls debug: loaded 67 trusted CAs from system
main debug: using tls client module "gnutls"
main debug: resolving streams.greenhost.nl ...
qt debug: IM: Deleting the input
qt debug: IM: Setting an input
qt debug: IM: Deleting the input
qt debug: IM: Setting an input
gnutls debug: TLS handshake: Resource temporarily unavailable, try again.
gnutls debug: TLS handshake: Resource temporarily unavailable, try again.
gnutls debug: TLS handshake: Resource temporarily unavailable, try again.
gnutls debug: TLS handshake: Resource temporarily unavailable, try again.
gnutls debug: TLS handshake: Success.
gnutls debug: - safe renegotiation (RFC5746) enabled
gnutls error: Certificate verification failure: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate chain uses expired certificate.
main error: TLS session handshake error
main error: connection error: No error
access error: HTTP connection failure
main debug: no access modules matched
main debug: dead input
qt debug: IM: Deleting the input
main debug: changing item without a request (current 9/10)
main debug: nothing to play

**************** LOG ENDS ******************

(I don't know if there's an actual log file, as I can't find it - so I copied the above out of the Messages window.)

I'm not a programmer so the above does not help me solve the problem.

I've been listening to these streams for years and I trust them.
So - Can I bypass the "Certificate verification failure" error, and play the streams?

If not - what can I do about this new problem?

- Snooze

All of these streams are playing fine for me with VLC 3.0.16.
What is your OS ?

You can try to reset the preferences with the manual way (delete the whole %APPDATA%\vlc folder) and check if it helps:
https://wiki.videolan.org/VSG:ResetPrefs

Thanks for your response.
Windows 10 Pro ver. 21H1 build 19043.1237

I'll try what you suggested and report the result

- Snooze

Unfortunately, deleting the /vlc/ folder didn't make any difference. I still have the same problem as reported above.

The 3 streams still play perfectly well in my browser (Firefox).

By the way I'm using VLC 3.0.16

Anyone else have a suggestion?

- Snooze

As I said, it's playing fine for me, no problem at all.

The issue might have something to do with this:
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-c ... mber-2021/
https://www.identrust.com/support/downloads
https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-o ... xpiration/
https://github.com/win-acme/win-acme/issues/1843

thanks, I'll look into these links.

- Snooze

Thanks for this additional idea, I didn't know there were alternate streams.

BUT.... hooray.... the original streams are suddenly working again now.

I guess it was something on the server end, that they've tweaked.

Thanks again everyone for your help

- Snooze