vlc 1.1.11 youtube crash

[angelique]

hello

sorry for my poor english but I'm Frenchy

So , I've just DL le last zip package of vlc 1.1.11 http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/fil ... p/download

the Hash md5 is ok : vlc-1.1.11-win32.zip 9dc2647f5694f3fb331dc1bccd921cf7 8dc06b0b0b535548a8b111e6a26554ba37a9e5d7 b743de3b C:\Documents and Settings\user\Mes documents\logs_rat\vlc-1.1.11-win32.zip 30/07/2011 12:31:19 30/07/2011 12:30:25 35 617 367 zip AC

OS : XP Pro SP2

The problem is when I want to stream for exemple any youtube videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_I70KACh4o) , VLC shutdown (crash) but style running in pocessXP , I open again VLC and appear this :



So I saied yes to send it

Any answer about this crash ??

many Thanx

[VLC_help]

This might be patched in
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/v ... 08084.html

[angelique]

OK , THX for the answer \o_

[colin]

im on a Mac where do i put this patch in the code?

[VLC_help]

You can edit the lua/playlist/youtube.lua file with text editor.

[Casketizer]

This might be patched in
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/v ... 08084.html

thx, that works.....

[colin]

i know but arent i supposed to put that piece of code in a specific place of the youtube lua file?

[Casketizer]

It's easier to copy the entire youtube.lua from here:
http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi?p=vl ... 9cdf8b5625

[freemarket]

Thank you -- Thank you -- Thank you!
That patch worked! I can now play youtube by pasting in the video URL.
I use VLC mainly to watch youtube and two days ago, it stopped working.
When I paste the url into VLC, VLC would crash. I then went to this forum
and found this fix. Thanks again!

[Tux89]

Hi, I have the same issue and I fix it with this patch. I have also a OpenSuSe 11.4 computer but I can't locate the right folder...
I've tried to put the patch into /usr/share/vlc/lua/playlist and /home/username/.config/vlc/lua/playlist, but doesn't work. My original path was:

/usr/share/vlc/lua
/home/username/.config/vlc/

and I had to created the /lua/playlist folders. which folder should I put this file?

oh, and sorry for my bad english!

[Casketizer]

it must be something like
/usr/share/vlc/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua

i think.
i use it on winblows.

if u cant find it,
u can do in xterm
#updatedb
#locate youtube.lua

edit: u may need to use root or sudo to run updatedb.

[Tux89]

ok, seems work on /home/username/.local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/ but only for my user! I have copied that script for my 3 users and works... I have to make .../lua/playlist directories, too.

[heehoo]

I am completely clueless as to how this patch works. I wouldn't know where to put anything or what to enter or what not.

[freemarket]

The patch is easy to install.

1) Go to the link provided by Casketizer.

2) Copy that text file.

3) Launch a text editor and navigate to your vlc directory.

4) Look around and find the playlist folder, then open the file youtube.lua

5) Delete that file, paste in the file that you copied earlier, and save it.

6) You are done!

[freemarket]

To be more precise, 5 should read

5) Delete the contents of that file, paste in the text that you copied earlier, and save that file.

[heehoo]

Thanks, I did what you said, and while I don't get the error message anymore, the link still doesn't play. But I appreciate it!

[freemarket]

Make sure that you copied the text exactly. Make sure
that all the indents are correct and there is no blank
line at the beginning and, make sure that there is
and EOF after the last "end". When you save the file,
the curser should be at the begining of the line following
the last "end".

[Tux89]

blocked again. The time to go to the bathroom and come back and no longer works ...

[Casketizer]

yep. broken again. this time there is not even an error in the message log :O

[Casketizer]

well there is if you increase debug level. Almost all unofficial youtube apps are not working since last night.
lua warning: Error while running script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\youtube.lua, function parse(): ...\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\youtube.lua:92: bad argument #1 to 'gsub' (string expected, got nil)

[vilapupu]

I got this error as well. It's a problem with all of my windows computers. they just crash and closes.

I think that YouTube is not liking 3rd parties players and just want to make a profit out of it. YouTube is just like that nowadays.. it's just a money making machine for Google /shot /stops ranting before a mod bans me or something.

I really hope that this problem gets fixed on the next update. ^w^

[Casketizer]

I already have found one part of the fix. yt changed fmt_url_map to url_encoded_fmt_stream_map. If I adapt youtube.lua all metadata except the (most important one) stream url is correct. Still investigating.

[Casketizer]

I fixed youtube.lua. this is my own ugly hack. i never touched lua script before but it works

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--[[ $Id$ Copyright © 2007-2009 the VideoLAN team This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA. --]] -- Helper function to get a parameter's value in a URL function get_url_param( url, name ) local _, _, res = string.find( url, "[&?]"..name.."=([^&]*)" ) return res end function get_arturl( path, video_id ) if string.match( vlc.path, "iurl=" ) then return vlc.strings( get_url_param( vlc.path, "iurl" ) ) end if not arturl then return "http://img.youtube.com/vi/"..video_id.."/default.jpg" end end -- Probe function. function probe() if vlc.access ~= "http" and vlc.access ~= "https" then return false end youtube_site = string.match( string.sub( vlc.path, 1, 8 ), "youtube" ) if not youtube_site then -- FIXME we should be using a builtin list of known youtube websites -- like "fr.youtube.com", "uk.youtube.com" etc.. youtube_site = string.find( vlc.path, ".youtube.com" ) if youtube_site == nil then return false end end return ( string.match( vlc.path, "watch%?v=" ) -- the html page or string.match( vlc.path, "watch_fullscreen%?video_id=" ) -- the fullscreen page or string.match( vlc.path, "p.swf" ) -- the (old?) player url or string.match( vlc.path, "jp.swf" ) -- the (new?) player url (as of 24/08/2007) or string.match( vlc.path, "player2.swf" ) ) -- another player url end -- Parse function. function parse() if string.match( vlc.path, "watch%?v=" ) then -- This is the HTML page's URL -- fmt is the format of the video: 18 is HQ (mp4) 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 = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars(vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars(string.find( line, "content=\"(.-)\"" ))) end if string.match( line, "subscribe_to_user=" ) then _,_,artist = string.find( line, "subscribe_to_user=([^&]*)" ) end -- CURRENT: var swfConfig = { [a lot of stuff...], "video_id": "OHVvVmUNBFc", "sk": "WswKuJzDBsdD6oG3IakCXgC", "t": "OEgsToPDskK3zO44y0QN8Fr5ZSAZwCQp", "plid": "AARGnwWMrmGkbpOxAAAA4AT4IAA"}; -- OLD 1: var swfArgs = {hl:'en',BASE_YT_URL:'http://youtube.com/',video_id:'XPJ7d8dq0t8',l:'292',t:'OEgsToPDskLFdOYrrlDm3FQPoQBYaCP1',sk:'0gnr-AE6QZJEZmCMd3lq_AC'}; -- OLD 2: var swfArgs = { "BASE_YT_URL": "http://youtube.com", "video_id": "OHVvVmUNBFc", "l": 88, "sk": "WswKuJzDBsdD6oG3IakCXgC", "t": "OEgsToPDskK3zO44y0QN8Fr5ZSAZwCQp", "plid": "AARGnwWMrmGkbpOxAAAA4AT4IAA", "tk": "mEL4E7PqHeaZp5OG19NQThHt9mXJU4PbRTOw6lz9osHi4Hixp7RE1w=="}; -- OLD 3: 'SWF_ARGS': { [a lot of stuff...], "video_id": "OHVvVmUNBFc", "sk": "WswKuJzDBsdD6oG3IakCXgC", "t": "OEgsToPDskK3zO44y0QN8Fr5ZSAZwCQp", "plid": "AARGnwWMrmGkbpOxAAAA4AT4IAA"}; if ( string.match( line, "PLAYER_CONFIG" ) or string.match( line, "swfConfig" ) or string.match( line, "SWF_ARGS" ) or string.match( line, "swfArgs" ) ) and string.match( line, "video_id" ) then if string.match( line, "BASE_YT_URL" ) then _,_,base_yt_url = string.find( line, "\"BASE_YT_URL\": \"(.-)\"" ) end _,_,t = string.find( line, "\"t\": \"(.-)\"" ) -- vlc.msg.err( t ) -- video_id = string.gsub( line, ".*&video_id:'([^']*)'.*", "%1" ) -- new stream map name below fmt_url_map = string.match( line, "\"url_encoded_fmt_stream_map\": \"(.-)\"" ) -- FIXME: do this properly fmt_url_map = string.gsub( fmt_url_map, "\\u0026", "&" ) if fmt_url_map then -- old | based pattern replaced for itag,url in string.gmatch( fmt_url_map, "(%d+)\,url\=([^,]+)" ) 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 -- do unescaping of / url = string.gsub( url, '\\/','/' ) -- cut off at &quality cutoff,_= url:find("&quality") url=url:sub(1,cutoff-1) -- have to run it through uri decoder path = vlc.strings.decode_uri(url) break end end end -- Also available on non-HTML5 pages: var swfHTML = (isIE) ? "<object [...]><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"rv.2.thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fi4.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F3MLp7YNTznE%2Fdefault.jpg&rv.7.length_seconds=384 [...] &video_id=OHVvVmUNBFc [...] &t=OEgsToPDskK3zO44y0QN8Fr5ZSAZwCQp [...] elseif string.match( line, "swfHTML" ) and string.match( line, "video_id" ) then _,_,t = string.find( line, "&t=(.-)&" ) -- Also available in HTML5 pages: videoPlayer.setAvailableFormat("http://v6.lscache4.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?ip=82.0.0.0&sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Calgorithm%2Cburst%2Cfactor&algorithm=throttle-factor&itag=45&ipbits=8&burst=40&sver=3&expire=1275688800&key=yt1&signature=6ED860441298D1157FF3013A5D72727F25831F09.4C196BEA9F8F9B83CE678D79AD918B83D5E98B46&factor=1.25&id=7117715cf57d18d4", "video/webm; codecs="vp8.0, vorbis"", "hd720"); elseif string.match( line, "videoPlayer%.setAvailableFormat" ) then url,itag = string.match( line, "videoPlayer%.setAvailableFormat%(\"(.-itag=(%d+).-)\",.+%)" ) if url then -- For now, WebM formats are listed only in the HTML5 -- section, that is also only when HTML5 is enabled. -- Format 45 is 720p, and 43 is lower resolution. if tonumber( itag ) == 45 or ( tonumber( itag ) == 43 and not webm_path ) then webm_path = url end -- Grab something if fmt_url_map failed if not path and ( not fmt or tonumber( itag ) == tonumber( fmt ) ) then path = url end end end end if not video_id then video_id = get_url_param( vlc.path, "v" ) end arturl = get_arturl( vlc.path, video_id ) if not fmt then -- Prefer WebM formats if this is an &html5=True URL html5 = get_url_param( vlc.path, "html5" ) if html5 == "True" and webm_path then path = webm_path end end if not path then if not base_yt_url then base_yt_url = "http://youtube.com/" end if fmt then format = "&fmt=" .. fmt else format = "" end if t then path = base_yt_url .. "get_video?video_id="..video_id.."&t="..t..format else -- This shouldn't happen ... but keep it as a backup. path = "http://www.youtube.com/v/"..video_id end end return { { path = path; name = name; description = description; artist = artist; arturl = arturl } } else -- This is the flash player's URL if string.match( vlc.path, "title=" ) then name = vlc.strings.decode_uri(get_url_param( vlc.path, "title" )) end video_id = get_url_param( vlc.path, "video_id" ) arturl = get_arturl( vlc.path, video_id ) fmt = get_url_param( vlc.path, "fmt" ) if fmt then format = "&fmt=" .. fmt else format = "" end if not string.match( vlc.path, "t=" ) then -- This sucks, we're missing "t" which is now mandatory. Let's -- try using another url return { { path = "http://www.youtube.com/v/"..video_id; name = name; arturl = arturl } } end return { { path = "http://www.youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id="..video_id.."&t="..get_url_param( vlc.path, "t" )..format; name = name; arturl = arturl } } end end

of course everyone is free to use my code as they please.

edit: i just cleaned it up, functionality unchanged.

[freemarket]

lua warning: Error while running script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\youtube.lua, function parse(): ...\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\youtube.lua:92: bad argument #1 to 'gsub' (string expected, got nil)

I am now getting this same error and can no longer play any youtube files.
What a bummer.

[Casketizer]

check post above yours. worked all afternoon to fix it. and at lunch i knew nothing of lua script