Youtube.lua not working (on win10) since monday?

[NLKU]

Hi all,

I quite frequently download video's using the VLC + Youtube.lua for non-professional purposes.
Since monday (maybe sunday) I seem to be unable to stream videos. The stream stutters and throws errors supposedly explained in the 'log'.
Not sure where to find the log. Followed a quick step-by-step (Preferences > Advanced > Logger > Created File = Empty Textfile?).
So that didn't seem to help, not sure why it didn't work (stored it in my documents).

Is anyone else experiencing these streaming issues (on windows 10)?
There is no apparant reason why this issue suddenly started occuring, no recent updates (did update VLC though afterwards to see if it fixed the issue), no new software, nothing chaging the ecosystem on clientside I could directly relate to this issue. Exactly the same as the day before when I could stream youtube video's without a problem.

Did some googling and found nothing of a recent cause, but did find youtube's plans to 'inject' ads into videos to counteract adblockers (god save us all, browsing the internet without addblockers is a living meme. It will certainly drive me away from Youtube if it gets toxic). Not sure if this recent development on youtube's end could be the cause (it did oddly coincide on the timeline with some of these newer more agressive ideas/video's I found. No links provided because it's not allowed I think).

Anyways, maybe someone knows why this occurs and I can't stream video's anymore?
Could someone see if the streaming still works on their end? Maybe then I can at least know if it's isolated on my end, because I can't find anything on this online. Never had problems with it before over many years now.

Thanks in advance for reading.

Greetings. NLKU

[HaMu1111]

I just found out the VLC could be used to download a YT video. So I was trying and followed all online guides on how to fix problems but it is just not working. So I guess you are right, something is broken. I use the latest youtube.lua script, renamed the old one and when opening a network stream with youtube url (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhsrWzQZGAI) I get an endless stream of errors.

Errors:
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'https://rr3---sn-uhvcpaxoa-guhe.googlev ... GEfmSTMlqT'. Check the log for details.
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'https://rr3---sn-uhvcpaxoa-guhe.googlev ... GEfmSTMlqT'. Check the log for details.
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'https://rr3---sn-uhvcpaxoa-guhe.googlev ... GEfmSTMlqT'. Check the log for details.
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'https://rr3---sn-uhvcpaxoa-guhe.googlev ... GEfmSTMlqT'. Check the log for details.
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'https://rr3---sn-uhvcpaxoa-guhe.googlev ... GEfmSTMlqT'. Check the log for details.
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[Baer4]

YT has changed the encoding again in the last 48 hours.

[Lotesdelere]

Same old story:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=160641
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=163867

[NLKU]

Same old story:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=160641
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=163867

And

YT has changed the encoding again in the last 48 hours.

Thanks for the replies. Seems I'll just have to wait this out then.
Saw some proposed work-arounds in there but will probably just patiently wait for the wizards to fix the lua method.
Much appreciated guys/gals.

Have a nice day!