Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject	Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again
Date	2025-12-25 01:20 +0000
Organization	the-candyden-of-code
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 02:57 this Sunday (GMT):
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 22:28:53 -0000 (UTC), bp wrote:
>
>> Copying a YouTube URL into vlc media player causes an error, which  starts with
>> Your input can't be opened:
>> VLC is unable to open the MRL 'https://rr2---sn-nvopjoxu-25ve.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1765254131&ei=k083aZHbLNaMlu8PvrCu0As&ip=50.1.20.31&id=o-AJ-TWnr5nbiu1saDbbnTkT--M44S09bXDdhPGEg1........
>> but I suppose that some deliberate access control by Youtube.
>
> Could just be that VLC’s attempt at extracting media URLs from YouTube
> isn’t as up-to-date as that in a dedicated downloader like youtube-dl,
> yt-dlp etc al.
>
> You could get the media URL from one of those, and then see if VLC
> will play it.


If you're willing to try another player, mpv can play youtube videos if
yt-dlp is installed.
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user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-12-07 01:38 +0000
  Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-12-07 12:08 +0000
    Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-12-07 15:49 +0000
      Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-12-07 23:41 +0000
  Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-12-08 10:29 +1000
    Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-12-08 03:44 +0000
      Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-12-09 07:49 +1000
        Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-12-08 22:28 +0000
          Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-12-08 22:33 +0000
          Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-12-09 10:42 +0000
          Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-21 02:57 +0000
            Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-12-25 01:20 +0000
    Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-18 06:52 +0000
      Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-12-18 16:53 +0000
      Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-12-20 17:38 +1000
        Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-20 22:51 +0000
          Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-12-22 10:50 +1000
            Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-22 04:44 +0000
              Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-12-22 15:53 +1000
                Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-22 23:14 +0000

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