windowlosa.blogg.se - Vlc youtube

Wget -q -O - '' > ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/a Or with wget: mkdir -p ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/

This works just fine: mkdir -p ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/Ĭurl '' -o ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/playlist/a There's no need to delete or modify system-level files. You can run the latest Lua script for extracting YouTube streamsīy downloading the appropriate file into your home directory. Get rid of the old, non-working scripts sudo rm /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.*ĭownload the current ones (use the whole command line, yes, it's quite long): sudo curl " a=blob_plain f=share/lua/playlist/a hb=HEAD" -o /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/a Make sure curl is installed, we need this to download the new file sudo apt-get install curl Open the Terminal application and enter these commands: Update just the Lua script for YouTube parsing to the latest version from VLC:

Install the package youtube-dl and download the video to your harddisk.

Wait for an update of VLC (or update the lua script yourself - not so easy, see Updating the VLC YouTube parser).

Install minitube and try to play the video there.

Go to and enable html5 there to play the video in your browser without flash.

VLC parses YouTube's HTML source code to look for the video, but sometimes, YouTube changes its way it outputs the HTML, so VLC is unable to find the video URL. My guess is it's lua error: Couldn't extract youtube video URL, please check for updates to this script Now click play again and see what message's there.

Open the Extras menu and click on Messages. I assume you entered the URL correctly (no https but http, and only the v=.