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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.

Here is one useful thread about that.

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?

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.

filip wrote: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.

doktor5000 wrote:Yep, verified.

Thanks for confirmation.

Thank you filip!
Your suggestion solved my problem.

You're welcome. Glad to hear that.