Is it possible for now to watch live youtube video streams using vlc? I just don't want to use flash player. I know that vlc can play youtube videos using link for the page where that video is located, but how about live youtube videos?
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Yes, it works the exact same way as non-live streams. Just Ctrl+N (or Media > Open Network Stream) and enter the youtube URL through the first parameter.
An example of the first thing I saw on youtube live (pretty darn terribad):
Alternative
If you are just looking to avoid using flashplayer, you could opt into YouTube's HTML5 Player.
answered Nov 22, 2013 at 15:12
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Ok, try this link youtube.com/watch?v=EH-n3Ayqctk if it works for you, because when I try vlc just crashes.– ruletCommented Nov 22, 2013 at 15:42
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Works just fine. Try repairing your install. What OS are you on? May be a bug in other OSs or languages, not sure though. Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 15:44
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2Your issue doesn't stand out as obvious to me, but looking through VLC forums, seems to be an on and off issue as YouTube keeps updating their site and how it works with videos. Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 16:18
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There is one more solution and that is to use streamlink together with VLC: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
This also allows you to select the streaming quality, which is not possible if you paste the link directly into VLC.
Example command for 720p quality:
streamlink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxx 720p
I would like to add to the answer already given by nerdwaller.
VLC requires a CA-Certificate file to be able to validate an *http***s** connection.
I was signed into youtoube, copied the address and tried
Media --> open Network Stream --> Play
main error: TLS client plugin not available
main error: open of `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=.....' failed
Once signed in, you are surfing using the HTTPS protocol. (So copy-paste will get ya)
Take away the s and open through a not encrypted connection and it worked fine.
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@peetonn : This is what worked for me back then. On my vlc now 2.2.0-pre2 Weatherwax, when entering an https link, it automatically falls back to an http connection. Perhaps you could set your messages Verbosity to (2) debug to get some more info as to what is happening. Menu [Tools] --> [Messages]. Commented Jan 28, 2015 at 10:25
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1I believe, YouTube has changed its API. if I remove "s" from https, it simply doesn't work saying that it needs TLS plugin– peetonnCommented Jan 28, 2015 at 18:48
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@peetonn : Well thanks for letting me know that this didn't work in your case, probably it is not the real solution and was a work around back then. You could try to install
gnuTLS. Also you could try another solution proposed as to feed VLC with certificates. Commented Jan 29, 2015 at 0:15 -
yep, checked these links already, thanks. the one with feeding certificates - I don't know how to do this in windows. also, tried GnuTLS - but they have builds for x86 architecture only. anyways, i've figured out that it's only VLC's x64 version problem. win32 (x86) actually works. in the end, I posted a question here– peetonnCommented Jan 29, 2015 at 6:37
youtube-dl --list-formatsreports the difference between playable and non-playable URLs in that way).