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Hi and thanks for the help, VLC is crashing (not responding) whenever I try to play a url. I click Media>Open Network Stream>Paste the url>Play and it forces close. I've tried it with all sorts of streaming links, Youtube, etc... I just got this computer its got Windows 7 and I never had this problem with my old computer running XP. I tried with QuickTime and WMP and got errors there too. Anyone know how to fix this?

YouTube will crash VLC unless you update the Youtube.lua file.

Its not just with YouTube videos its with any kind of flash video or streaming video. The thing I'm needing it to work for is Firstrowsports.tv, any idea how I can get that to work?

I tried to update the swfargs file but I couldn't locate it anywhere. Checked the lua folder and did a search all throughout the VideoLAN folder and came up empty. Is there something else I can do?

If you want VLC to play Firstrowsports.tv, you have to write lua parser for it.

I appreciate your help, could you elaborate on that? I have no idea what that means to be honest. I tried changing the .lua file as i found in a write up on this forum but that didn't work. Can you explain what you mean? thanks VLC_Help

You have to write something like the youtube.lua but instead you parse the Firstrowsports.tv website and recover the address of actual video file.
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=bl ... outube.lua

You have to write something like the youtube.lua but instead you parse the Firstrowsports.tv website and recover the address of actual video file.
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=bl ... outube.lua

Is it possible to use a lua parser generator or would one have to write the lua code from scratch and use 'VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\youtube.luac' as a template?

I just barely know Java structure and know less Java commands than one can count on both hands so I hardly know how to program, much less how to program in lua. If you would write the lua for a justin.tv ( http://www.justin.tv/mairj2345 ) stream, I would paypal you a $5 lunch! Then I would be able to dissect your code and piece together the lua for other like sites on my own.



Pleeeaase?

I don't do lua code. But it shouldn't be very hard if the Firstrowsports.tv doesn't obfuscate the URL (I haven't checked what the site does).

obfuscate huh? this has gotten well beyond my knowledge of computers. I envy you! haha, I tried changing that .lua file once I doubt I'll be able to get this to work.

obfuscate huh?

Some site don't want their videos to be copied or played outside the site. So they try to prevent this with URL obfuscation and RTMP authentication stuff.

YouTube will crash VLC unless you update the Youtube.lua file.

I hate to beat a dead horse and join a conversation late, but I'm having a similar issue. I have investigated around the forums and it seems that I need this new "lua" code.

However, I don't know anything about codes, editing, parsing, et cetera. I feel confident in my copying and pasting abilities, but other than that, I have no clue. I can find the lua folder and the readme file in it... seems to be the most likely place for editing of this sort. Although I don't know what exactly I need to copy and paste, or where it needs to go within that document.

Just to clarify, my problem is that when I press play for a URL that I entered into the Open a network stream, it will bring up the video in a very tiny size and then it barely starts playing before the program closes. The next time I go to open the program, it asks me if I'd like to send a bug report.

If anyone would like to walk me through this step by step, I would be very grateful. Thank you in advance for taking the time to address my issue.

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=bl ... outube.lua download that file, copy it to C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\ folder and replace the old file.

Thank you VLC_help.

I placed the file in the specified file path, but did not rename it. It is still share_lua_playlist_youtube. I did remove the original youtube file though. It has worked some times. There is still about every other time I try to play, the program will stop playing after 1 second. If you know what might alleviate that, I would give it a try.

Thanks again!

You can check the messages from Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2).

VLC toujours aussi fort!
Lit mieux les vidéos HD en streaming que mes navigateurs web. exemple en 1080p : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... UEZCxBcM78
Félicitations!

Manque plus qu'à intégrer le bon fichier youtube.lua à la prochaine mise à jour...

Un grand merci, un de plus.

Manu