Is it just me, or VLC can't play YouTube anymore?

[vlcmo]

Is it just me, or did VLC lose the ability to play YouTube videos, regardless of whether it's updated to the latest version?

[Lotesdelere]

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=164777
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=164806

[vlcmo]

Thanks.
Don't see any solutions there.

Is there anyone whose VLC is currently able to play YouTube videos?

[Lotesdelere]

Don't see any solutions there.

Because you haven't read careful enough.
The solution is to update the LUA script when a new version will be available.

[vlcmo]

The solution is to update the LUA script when a new version will be available.

Right, and currently no fixed version is available. Hence my question if every VLC user has this issue.

[Gruko]

Yes, of course.

[vlcmo]

Is this the longest stretch of time that VLC has not update their LUA after YouTube streaming stopped working?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

I don't think so, but I am pretty sure that nobody kept track of that going all the way back to GoogleVideo.

[vlcmo]

So will VLC update itself to correct this, or is this the end of YouTube streaming on VLC?

[Lotesdelere]

So will VLC update itself to correct this

No. You will need to manually update the LUA script as explained here:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 26#p483226

You can check for a new version of the LUA script here:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/ ... type=heads

and there:
https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/ma ... outube.lua

[vlcmo]

No. You will need to manually update the LUA script as explained here:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 26#p483226

You can check for a new version of the LUA script here:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/ ... type=heads

and there:
https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/ma ... outube.lua

Isn't this the download link?
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/ ... line=false

[Lotesdelere]

Yes, it's the direct download link but it doesn't show in any way the date of the latest update.

[vlcmo]

And it still doesn't work.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It clearly says that the last update was on August 11, 2023, so no surprises there.

[vlcmo]

So that's almost a year. Has VLC ever not updated the LUA for a year before?

[WNG555]

Just to keep this thread on top, I too can't access and download from youtube beginning about 2 months ago. It was very clunky but the currently dated 4/2023 youtube.lua managed to connect and record but in real time. Worked up to Spring. Now it's completely dead.

Request: I hope the keepers of the github repository or author of youtube.lua can update it. It's beyond my capabilities.

Thanks in advance.

[vlcmo]

So does ANYONE have any idea what's going on?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

YouTube updated their site and nobody has provided a patch to refresh the VLC Lua script. That's what's going on.

That's probably not what you want to hear but I'm not sure what answer you expect, TBH.

[vlcmo]

Are there any other safe media players that are currently still able to stream YouTube videos?

[Lotesdelere]

You can use the YT-DLP batch file as a workaround:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 15#p495615

Where of course, you have to replace youtube-dl.exe with yt-dlp.exe and to set the correct path to VLC.exe.

[Gruko]

Are there any other safe media players that are currently still able to stream YouTube videos?

Try to use MPC-BE: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/files/

[RandomBugReporter]

I have the same problem and I am trying to file a bug report

[Lotesdelere]

There is no bug to report, just READ the thread. Carefully.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Please don't open duplicate bug reports. The issue is well-known : https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/27227 just needs somebody to actually bother to do the fixing. Patch welcome.

[vlcmo]

The issue is well-known : https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/27227

This is not the same as the issue discussed in this thread (which started about a month or so ago).