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Hi, I noticed that that for the latest version (3.0.3), the `start-time`, `rate` and `end-time` flags don't work for YouTube links on the RC interface anymore, e.g.:


Whereas this still works for local files:
Wondering if this has affected anyone else, and whether there are any workaround? I've also opened up a bug report here: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/20647#no3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQF5CXV9cos is a web page, not a video. So VLC treats it as a playlist (of only one video). And start-time has no effects on playlists.

Try --start-time instead of :start-time

Thanks for the replies guys and the links!

I appreciate that the link is a website, but I do think the various start-time, end-time flags etc. on YouTube links was supported in a previous version of VLC (around 2.2.x), as I had written a Vim plugin last year for practicing music along with links (which can be YouTube links) that interfaced with VLC rc over telnet, using commands such as (https://github.com/xdl/vlcdrill).

Now I want to start using it again, I realised that the command no longer respects the flags anymore. However, I just realised that this can be gotten around this by using youtube-dl tool (something like youtube-dl --get-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQF5CXV9cos), and then calling the add command on the audio link, something like
So this should be fine in my case, but perhaps worth looking into as I believe this was a regression of something that used to work.

No. This is normal. start-time applies to real media files, not to playlists/manifests/web pages.