Bug#769739: vlc: Can't play videos in webm format on YouTube
Sebastian Ramacher
sramacher at debian.org
Tue Nov 18 13:57:22 UTC 2014
Control: tags -1 + upstream fixed-upstream
On 2014-11-16 03:19:43, Andoru Ekkusu wrote:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.2.0~rc1-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Since updating to 2.2.0~rc1-1, I cannot play any videos in the webm format
> on YouTube, getting this in the message window (verbosity 1):
> __________________________________________________________
> lua info: youtube.lua: debug: parse(): js_url before //
> s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/html5player-ro_RO-vflJ1gY7_/html5player.js
>
> lua info: youtube.lua: debug: parse(): js_url fixed (added "http:")
> http://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/html5player-ro_RO-vflJ1gY7_/html5player.js
>
> lua error: youtube.lua: pick_url(): Couldn't locate video signature,
> YouTube won't work without it.
>
> core info: stopping playback
> ____________________________________________________________
>
>
> Playing any video on the mp4 formats seems to work just fine (except on
> music videos or "heavily copyrighted" stuff of the sort which is expected
> not to work)
>
> I also have another similar problem (
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769071) with all YouTube
> videos and this notice was posted in regards to youtube.lua:
> http://jslover.secsrv.net/VLC/playlist/youtube.lua
>
> Could this issue be related to YouTube screwing things up?
I suppose this is fixed by 7529f9c0c3d4418a1bc0af2640ce24c450f0e9b1
[1]. Could try if this changes fixes the issue for you?
Cheers
[1] http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commit;h=50ce5550c197c2b48e9e104cc93ae4f53464c4c7
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Sebastian Ramacher
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