Bug#641507: vlc: crashes when trying to play youtube URLs

Wed Oct 5 19:45:21 UTC 2011

tags 641507 + confirmed upstream fixed-upstream
thanks

This should already be fixed in vlc-1.1.git.

Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 03:55:04 Paul Wise, vous avez écrit :
> Package: vlc
> Version: 1.1.11-2+b3
> Severity: normal
> 
> After upgrading to sid vlc plus libav from sid in an attempt to get it
> to play youtube URLs, I get a crash instead of an "unsupported" message.

However, YouTube playback is always going to be flaky since it involves 
parsing an HTML page whose format keeps changing (VLC should not crash 
regardless).

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