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VLC version 3.5.4
Android version Galaxy A14 5G

When I paste a copied URL for a YouTube video into the streaming text box, the following error message appears for about 2 seconds and then disappears:

"The location https://rr5---sn-o097znsz.goog..."

What does this mean and how do I remedy the problem?

The URL: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7RiI3oQXJ84

The end of the message should be "cannot be played" but the URL is too long for your screen I guess. You should provide some logs to see what happens.

I'm also facing the same problem

Please fix it

How to submit log

I went into settings > advanced > debug logs and pressed the "start logging" button. Then tried to stream the video and got the error message. When I went back into debug logging to press the stop logging button all of the buttons were grayed out except for the start logging button.

Does this mean that it generated a log file and stopped logging automatically? If so, how do i access the debug log file on android?

If it didn't generate a log file how do I go about creating one?

The log file should be at the root of your internal memory (in /sdcard basically) and will be called vlc_logcat_(...).log

I tried to post the contents of the debug log file and got the following error message:

"Message contains 475403 characters. Max is 7999"

Do I need to send it in multiple posts or is there a way to send the log file as an attachment?

You can use a service like https://pastebin.com/ to share your logs.

Unable to create an account on Pastebin and they haven't responded to my inquiry regarding the problem.

Any other recommendations regarding how to submit a debug log file?

I was able to use Pastebin without creating an account. You can use another service or in another way put the log file somewhere on the web so that it has a URL you can cite here.

You don't need to create an account on Pastebin, I've just tried it and it works.
You can also use https://justpaste.it service.

You did not reproduce the issue before exporting the logs.

I went into Debug Logs, selected "Start logging", attempted to stream the video and received the error message, then went back into Debug Logs and selected "Stop logging". Am I missing something?

You're trying to play a Youtube video. This is a known issue. We are looking into it.

Issue reproduced:

https://justpaste.it/dgwzg

UPDATE: Per forum posts VLC media player's ability to stream YouTube videos is broken and fixing it isn't high on the VLC developers list of priorities (partly due to the ongoing need for updated fixes to keep up with YT's never ending code changes).

My solution will be to use one of the Firefox browser video downloader extensions to save YT videos to an external hard drive that's connected to my PC, after which aforementioned videos can be played directly from the external drive.