[SOLVED] VLC doesn't play back YouTube URLs. Why?

[LaCiccia]

Hi everybody,
I have Mageia 2 and VLC 2.0.8 media player.

VLC doesn't play youtube videos when I copy/paste the video's URL into the "Network Protocol" box (shortcut: Ctrl + N). It starts and stops the streaming immeadiately. Even pressing the "play" button doen't start the video. This trick works flawlessly with VLC in Windows 7 so why is it going rogue in Mageia? What can I do to fix this problem? I'd really like this feature for my studies: for example, tutorials and video lectures can be heard in 1.23x speed in VLC. Can someone kindly help me out?
Thank you.

[filip]

Here is one useful thread about that.

[LaCiccia]

Hi there!
I'm still trying to solve this problem.
First off, I read the link you posted: I get that I'm either missing a VLC plugin or a codec or else I have to properly configure VLC to open youtube videos.

In Mageia Control Center > Configure media sources for Update and Install, I ticked the following repos:

• Tainted Release (distrib74)
• Tainted Updates (distrib76)

then I updated the system with

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su -
urpmi --auto-update


Install and Remove Software shows these installed packages containing the word 'FFMPEG':

• ffmpeg vers 0.10.7 release 1.mga2.tainted
• ffmpegthumbs vers 4.8.5 realease 1.2.mga2
• gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg vers 0.10.13 3.mga2

Also see this:

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$ vlc --list | grep FFmpeg
VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower (revision 2.0.7-29-g12aebf9)
  access_avio            FFmpeg access
  avcodec                FFmpeg audio/video decoder
  avcodec                FFmpeg deinterlace video filter
  avcodec                FFmpeg audio/video encoder


I've got these VLC plugins, all of them are vers 2.0.8 realease 0.2.mga2.tainted:

• vlc-plugin-common
• vlc-plugin-flac
• vlc-plugin-opengl
• vlc-plugin-pulse
• vlc-plugin-theora

Any idea what I might try next?

[filip]

It seems that you don't have vlc-plugin-lua installed.

Quick search revealed http://askubuntu.com/questions/197739/v ... ay-anymore and http://addons.videolan.org/content/show ... ent=149909 for more info.

[doktor5000]

It seems that you don't have vlc-plugin-lua installed.

Yep, verified. Works with vlc-plugin-lua, without you only get:

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[0xa87978] qt4 interface error: Unable to load extensions module

in terminal.

[filip]

Yep, verified.

Thanks for confirmation.

[LaCiccia]

Thank you filip!
Your suggestion solved my problem.

[filip]

You're welcome. Glad to hear that.