I altered some code of the youtube.lua script recently to make youtube-vids working again so.. I want to share those findings with y'all
works with any VLC from 1.1.11 and youtube (at least from the Netherlands)
the patch I applied works for me so I hope it works in other countries too
just replace the PARSE FUNCTION in the existing youtube.lua with the altered one to get it working again
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-- Parse function.
function parse()
if string.match( vlc.path, "/watch%?" )
then -- This is the HTML page's URL
-- fmt is the format of the video
-- (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs)
fmt = get_url_param( vlc.path, "fmt" )
while true do
-- Try to find the video's title
line = vlc.readline()
if not line then break end
if string.match( line, "<meta name=\"title\"" ) then
_,_,name = string.find( line, "content=\"(.-)\"" )
name = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( name )
name = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( name )
end
if string.match( line, "<meta name=\"description\"" ) then
-- Don't ask me why they double encode ...
_,_,description = string.find( line, "content=\"(.-)\"" )
description = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( description )
description = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( description )
end
if string.match( line, "<meta property=\"og:image\"" ) then
_,_,arturl = string.find( line, "content=\"(.-)\"" )
end
if string.match( line, " rel=\"author\"" ) then
_,_,artist = string.find( line, "href=\"/user/([^\"]*)\"" )
end
-- JSON parameters, also formerly known as "swfConfig",
-- "SWF_ARGS", "swfArgs", "PLAYER_CONFIG" ...
if string.match( line, "playerConfig" ) then
if not fmt then
prefres = get_prefres()
if prefres >= 0 then
fmt_list = string.match( line, "\"fmt_list\": \"(.-)\"" )
if fmt_list then
for itag,height in string.gmatch( fmt_list, "(%d+)\\/%d+x(%d+)\\/[^,]+" ) do
-- Apparently formats are listed in quality
-- order, so we take the first one that works,
-- or fallback to the lowest quality
fmt = itag
if tonumber(height) <= prefres then
break
end
end
end
end
end
url_map = string.match( line, "\"url_encoded_fmt_stream_map\": \"(.-)\"" )
if url_map then
-- FIXME: do this properly
url_map = string.gsub( url_map, "\\u0026", "&" )
-- for url,itag in string.gmatch( url_map, "url=([^&,]+)[^,]*&itag=(%d+)" ) do
for itag,url,sig in string.gmatch( url_map, "itag=(%d+)&url=([^&,]+)[^,]*&sig=([^&,]+)" ) do
-- Apparently formats are listed in quality order,
-- so we can afford to simply take the first one
if not fmt or tonumber( itag ) == tonumber( fmt ) then
url = vlc.strings.decode_uri( url ).."&signature="..sig
-- PATCHED BY PSL
-- url = vlc.strings.decode_uri( url )
path = url
break
end
end
end
-- There is also another version of the parameters, encoded
-- differently, as an HTML attribute of an <object> or <embed>
-- tag; but we don't need it now
end
end
-- No path? Try again using YouTube's get_video_info page
if not path then
video_id = get_url_param( vlc.path, "v" )
local fd, msg = vlc.stream( string.format('http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=%s', video_id) )
if not fd then
vlc.msg.warn(msg)
else
local line = fd:readline()
while line ~= nil do
-- PATCHED BY PSL
for itag,url,sig in string.gmatch( vlc.strings.decode_uri(line), "itag=(%d+)&url=([^&,]+)[^,]*&sig=([^&,]+)" ) do
url = vlc.strings.decode_uri( url ).."&signature="..sig
path = url
break
end
line = fd:readline()
end
end
end
if not path then
vlc.msg.err( "Couldn't extract youtube video URL, please check for updates to this script" )
return { }
end
if not arturl then
arturl = get_arturl()
end
return { { path = path; name = name; description = description; artist = artist; arturl = arturl } }
else -- This is the flash player's URL
video_id = get_url_param( vlc.path, "video_id" )
if not video_id then
_,_,video_id = string.find( vlc.path, "/v/([^?]*)" )
end
if not video_id then
vlc.msg.err( "Couldn't extract youtube video URL" )
return { }
end
fmt = get_url_param( vlc.path, "fmt" )
if fmt then
format = "&fmt=" .. fmt
else
format = ""
end
return { { path = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v="..video_id..format } }
end
end