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Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 19 Sep 2022 17:42
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
You could say that. The root cause of the issue is that the website page layout changes in incompatible ways - but that's most certainly deliberate, so not a bug from Google's standpoint.
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 20 Sep 2022 02:55
by Lucas Zxc
You could say that. The root cause of the issue is that the website page layout changes in incompatible ways - but that's most certainly deliberate, so not a bug from Google's standpoint.
then what is going on? for me to understand this better
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 20 Sep 2022 10:59
by unidan
then what is going on? for me to understand this better
With latest youtube version, we'd need javascript evaluation to get the URL from youtube in a reliable way. The current lua version is basically trying to fetch the source from youtube and parse them to extract the URL, which is not enough now.
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 20 Sep 2022 11:51
by cpm1a+_
> The current lua version is basically trying to fetch the source from youtube and parse them to extract the URL, which is not enough now.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/video ... outube.lua
how come this one works perfectly for VLC 3.0.17.4 then? i use m.youtube.com
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 20 Sep 2022 15:09
by Lucas Zxc
then what is going on? for me to understand this better
With latest youtube version, we'd need javascript evaluation to get the URL from youtube in a reliable way. The current lua version is basically trying to fetch the source from youtube and parse them to extract the URL, which is not enough now.
and do you guys have any idea when this will be resolved?
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 20 Sep 2022 17:30
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
As far as I know, nobody plans to resolve this.
You can still play YouTube URLs either by starting VLC from YT-DLP, or by installing the unofficial backport of the VLC YTDL plugin.
Or, well, play directly in the browser.
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 20 Sep 2022 17:44
by Lucas Zxc
As far as I know, nobody plans to resolve this.
You can still play YouTube URLs either by starting VLC from YT-DLP, or by installing the unofficial backport of the VLC YTDL plugin.
and what would this YT-DLP and this unofficial backport of the VLC YTDL plugin be? if you can, could you explain it to me
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 20 Sep 2022 22:00
by Lucas Zxc
As far as I know, nobody plans to resolve this.
Really? is that sometimes I like to watch Youtube videos in VLC and if it is not fixed, this ability of VLC to watch Youtube videos will have to be removed unfortunately
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 21 Sep 2022 10:50
by cpm1a+_
>As far as I know, nobody plans to resolve this.
You can still play YouTube URLs either by starting VLC from YT-DLP, or by installing the unofficial backport of the VLC YTDL plugin.
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am i missing your point? again, what about THIS lua? it works perfectly for VLC 3.0.17.4, nothing else needed:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/video ... outube.lua
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 21 Sep 2022 16:21
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
When I wrote that "As far as I know, nobody plans to resolve this", I meant that "As far as I know, nobody plans to resolve this". Asking multiple times is not going to change the answer.
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 21 Sep 2022 17:06
by Lucas Zxc
>As far as I know, nobody plans to resolve this.
You can still play YouTube URLs either by starting VLC from YT-DLP, or by installing the unofficial backport of the VLC YTDL plugin.
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am i missing your point? again, what about THIS lua? it works perfectly for VLC 3.0.17.4, nothing else needed:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/video ... outube.lua
I did everything right and tested it but it still gave a problem, did i do something wrong? Is there a tutorial for this Lua script?
here to prove what I am saying:
https://imgur.com/a/yQovQoC
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 22 Sep 2022 10:41
by Lotesdelere
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 22 Sep 2022 12:17
by unidan
According to the main lua maintainer, a lot of work is needed to bring back youtube feature for now:
https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/ ... 43473.html
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 22 Sep 2022 16:33
by Lucas Zxc
I tried that, but it didn't work
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 22 Sep 2022 16:54
by Lucas Zxc
According to the main lua maintainer
and who would this main lua maintainer be? do you guys know him and I can talk to him?
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 23 Sep 2022 09:36
by Lotesdelere
Just read the mailman link which has been posted by Unidan just above your posts.
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 29 Sep 2022 05:19
by Lucas Zxc
so guys, just passing by to know if there is any news on this youtube issue
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 29 Sep 2022 09:29
by Lotesdelere
Maybe the VLC team should have a look at parsing the Youtube videos from one of the
Invidious instances like yewtu.be, for instance.
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 29 Sep 2022 11:16
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
That's written in a fringe programming language that probably none of the VLC developers know so not terribly useful.
But as always, patches are welcome.
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 29 Sep 2022 14:51
by cpm1a+_
>Maybe the VLC team should have a look at parsing the Youtube videos from one of the Invidious instances like yewtu.be, for instance.
oh, that would be GREAT!
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 29 Sep 2022 20:34
by Lucas Zxc
so, about my question
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 18 Nov 2022 15:27
by James Holmes
Thank you all. If yt-dip is another video downloader, I shall give it a try. Will it work for content that is not on UT?
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 19 Nov 2022 10:48
by Lotesdelere
Will it work for content that is not on YT?
Yes, it works for many sites. Just try it
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 06 Dec 2022 01:10
by ccking32
Yeah, as of yet there still hasn't been a fix with the same issue about Youtube Video URLS not able to load and play on network stream on VLC Media Player for Windows 10/11
I made sure VLC was updated its on 3.0 18, it is
I reinstalled it several times, nothing.
I even replaced the youtube.luac file with a current one from github, nothing!
Ive tried every possible troubleshooting i could find on the internet for this problem and nothing has changed.
Either Youtube screwed VLC, or we havent gotten an updated luac file or update yet.
So i guess we screwed still.
Re: VLC stopped playing youtube!
Posted: 06 Dec 2022 14:56
by Lucas Zxc
Yeah, as of yet there still hasn't been a fix with the same issue about Youtube Video URLS not able to load and play on network stream on VLC Media Player for Windows 10/11
I made sure VLC was updated its on 3.0 18, it is
I reinstalled it several times, nothing.
I even replaced the youtube.luac file with a current one from github, nothing!
Ive tried every possible troubleshooting i could find on the internet for this problem and nothing has changed.
Either Youtube screwed VLC, or we havent gotten an updated luac file or update yet.
So i guess we screwed still.
what a pity, I hope this can be solved somehow, I liked watching youtube videos in vlc