As i've understood, this is probably going to be an evergreen problem since youtube regularly update their website, and videolan needs to adapt to them, but since i couldn't find the answer online i'm asking it now.
I'm trying to play a youtube video from the CLI, using vlc.
I'd rather stream it than download and play it, for speed reasons.
On windows, it works fine
On linux, i had a problem descrambling the url. I updated the Youtube.luac file to the latest one, and now i'm stuck on this:
[00007f1948002050] http stream debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 6149 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
[00007f1948002050] http stream debug: in DATA (0x00) frame of 0 bytes, flags 0x01, stream 1
[00007f1948002050] http stream debug: stream 1 closed by peer
[00007f1948002050] http stream debug: in PING (0x06) frame of 8 bytes, flags 0x00, global
[00007f1948002050] http stream debug: out (priority) PING (0x06) frame of 8 bytes, flags 0x01, global
[00007f1948307fb0] prefetch stream debug: end of stream
[00007f1948307fb0] main stream debug: removing module "prefetch"
[00007f1948002050] main stream debug: removing module "access"
[00007f1948002050] http stream debug: local stream 1 shut down
[00007f1948002050] http stream debug: out RST_STREAM (0x03) frame of 4 bytes, flags 0x00, stream 1
[00007f1948002050] http stream debug: local shutdown
[00007f1948002050] http stream debug: out GOAWAY (0x07) frame of 8 bytes, flags 0x00, global
[00007f1950040970] main tls client error: TLS session handshake timeout
[00007f1950040970] main tls client error: connection error: Resource temporarily unavailable
[00007f1950040970] gnutls tls client debug: TLS handshake: Error in the push function.
[00007f1950040970] gnutls tls client error: TLS handshake error: Error in the push function.
[00007f1950040970] main tls client error: TLS session handshake error
[00007f1950040970] main tls client error: connection error: Network is unreachable
[00007f1950322e10] access stream error: HTTP connection failure
[00007f1950322e10] main stream debug: no access modules matched
[00005651e8c53850] main playlist debug: dead input
[00005651e8c53850] main playlist debug: changing item without a request (current 0/1)
[00005651e8c53850] main playlist debug: nothing to play
[00005651e8d33450] qt interface debug: IM: Deleting the input
Running this command
vlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmLFqHSjR0 -vv
There doesn't seem to be a way to ignore the certificate, and it wouldn't really be desirable anyway (right?)
Is there a workaround for this?
Of course, everything has been updated to the latest version
Thanks!
I found a workaround kinda - follow this answer:
How to solve connection error when trying to stream a video from YouTube?
Just this part
sudo update-ca-certificates --fresh --verbose
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/vlc/certs/
cat /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/* | tee ~/.local/share/vlc/certs/ca-certifcates.crt
After a reboot, my vlc videos start as expected.
However, i'm not quite sure of what i just did, so maybe it's not safe to do this.