I'm a Brit living in Finland and use RUclips and other sites to download UK series that I can't view over here. I've spent weeks looking for an answer to this annoying problem and your tutorial has resolved the issue. Absolutely brilliant! If there were RUclips Tutorial medals you'd get a Gold! Thanks so much.
I found the issue ! Had to turn on logging to do so. VLC tries all the LUAC files to find one that can process the URL. I didn't delete the original LUAC file, I just renamed it. I didn't realize it was using a 'brute-force' approach to see what LUAC script would be able to process the URL. The log showed me that it found my renamed LUAC and it failed to extract the video file location. So I deleted the renamed LUAC and voila, it worked. And it didn't care where VLC was installed - I did test both the default 64-bit location and on another drive - same outcome. Thanks for this - a big time saver !
Mac users: The file location for the youtube.luac file is: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/share/lua/playlist/ And yes, this tip works on a Mac too! Thank you, Jason for the update!
Okay, had problems with the fix, but went back and followed his EXACT instructions at 5:00 (checking the box in options). Made all the difference and now works. Thank you for this video!!
your a legend bro, NO CLICKBAIT HERE! I appreciate an honest , straight up, content maker. thank you. Im just annoyed i didnt find you before i watched the 15 other shitty vids.
That's was just great, I have been trying to sort this problem various ways, none of which worked, until I came back here where I got all the info to use VLC in the first place, to find you giving us another really well made easy to follow video to help us out. Brilliant, thank you.
Thank you ever so much for this video. I once used VLC to download the occasional video from youtube and then switched to using the Torch browser to download videos. Then I could no longer download any youtube videos at all. Starting around the second or third week of December 2019, something changed somewhere (perhaps over on youtube?) preventing me (and everyone else?) from downloading youtube videos. Curiously, when I look at the tabs that my Firefox browser shows me, I now see either (22) or (24) appended to the named tab right in front of the tab name. In the past, I do not think I ever saw this (22) or (24) appended to the named tab. Anyway, to make a long story short, I followed your instructions, exactly, on a Windows 10 laptop pc, using the 32 bit version of VLC, and your solution worked for me. I was able to download a youtube video. Thanks again!
Jason - Thank you. I followed your clear instructions and replaced the required file on my system drive. Mission accomplished. Thank you for uploading - Liked.
@@SuperPertinax What would you say to this please? I found this modified file didn't work if you copied to another Windows PC? I redone your process from that PC and all OK? The first VLC player was 32-bit, the second was 64-bit. The correct programme location was used as it is different as you mentioned but I was still surprised.
I found this, actually recognized your voice from your previous video (how bizarre I should do that) and so I knew the video would be coherent, comprehensive, yet efficient. Thanks. I hope you collect some more revenue! As your last video's history showed, you might get a long-term increase in views! I had tried another person's help video first for this latest problem, but it wasn't clear, so I am glad you did this.
My savior! I've been tinkering with VLC for a couple hours now trying to get it to stream and with your help it did the trick and is working now. Thank you very much for making this update video
Got it to work... thanks a bunch. I don't know what I was doing wrong, but it worked when I just took the file that I downloaded instead of the copy/paste/rename thing. I saw many videos about this very thing but could follow none of them... You explained it very clearly.Thanks.
Thank so much! I've been trying to figure this out for the last month and the other 'fixes' I've found on the net did not work. So again, I thank you sir.
Thank You. I subscribed your channel. I go as : Right click the VLC icon ---Open file location--- Left click Lua folder---Left click Playlist folder then lookfor youtube.lauc replace with your LUA file. Saving you tube video is when I reach @8:23 I stop and go to Codec information then follow as the earlier you tube video downloading method .Cheers
I recently found that VLC allows you to change the pitch when playing content in it, and I've always wanted to do the same with music on RUclips. Thanks for posting the video because I can do it now :)
This guy is a genius as I have been having problems for weeks now and no help although I tried many things suggested elsewhere. Now I know where to go first, Thanks! Much!
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH i had been having to use vlc nightlies which i hate because of the new look and whenever you play a video it opens in a new window you are the BEST
I tried doing this exact method with the same script, but only your way worked. Other videos wanted me to edit the orignal .luac file, but it wouldn't let me save it. Dragging a premade text file into the folder and repalcing the original did the trick. Thanks a ton!
Thank you so much for your help. It really does works and not very difficult to fix. I was making myself crazy watching other suggestions that didn't work.
Stopped working last week : worked like a treat before, Thank You. Resisted upgrading to latest version of VLC in case it negated the file patch. Would you suggest upgrading VLC version or is there an updated lua file ? Appreciate your input, Thanks
update - saw a comment that it did not work on the 64bit version - so I removed the 64 bit version and installed the regular version - which i assume the 32 bit version - did all of the steps over again - to my surprise - IT WORKED
funny I just saw your old video and downloaded the current VLC and it works still .There is also another way to paste the codec stream in a browser and right-click to save it. Much faster than having to record the entire video. What I want to know is how to record in the full 4K stream from VLC>
It worked. I played a video I closed VLC. Then when i restarted the programm it didn´t work anymore. I reset my settings put in the luac file again and it still doesnt work.
was watching youtube (VLC LUA FIX } Really like to watch. I thought I would try to fix My VLC I went to my Explorer & went through 12 steps to get to youtube.luac.That looked easy next I copy the address on your youtube Got to the copy that whole page.Did not see any place to paste and open The youtube.txt
Thanks for the video! Though it didn't completely work for me I was able to find a solution. For me the notepad file I created from copying and pasting the code into it kept saving as a text document instead of a LUAC file even though I did as you showed and added the ".luac" extension to the file name. And whenever I would try to just edit the original RUclips.luac file within the folder, windows wouldn't allow me to save the changes to the file saying I needed permission from the file creator despite me being the system administrator. So my solution I came up with was to cut the original youtube.luac file from the folder and paste it to my desktop. Then while it was on my desktop and removed from the protected VLC folder I was able to delete the contents of the original file and paste the copied script from the webpage link onto the original file, then paste that same folder back into the VLC playlist folder. After that my problem was solved. Hope this helps someone else.
i get the same issue, but i cannot open the lua file. i tried downloading SuperPertinax lua file but it does not save as a lua file. what to do can you help me. thank you
Thank you very much!! Worked fine for me with win 10. I didn't know how to change the .txt extension into .luac extension, but in your description you have a link to your luac file. So I copied that into the folder and it did the job! Cheers!
Thanks for the video. Followed your instructions to the letter but still am unable to stream youtube videos. I have the latest VLC. Any thoughts? Thanks again!
Nah... NOT WORKING! I opened this site for the .lua file "github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua" copied and pasted just as you said but VLC still will not run any YT stream via URL... :(
@@travisloyd9030 - I just found another solution that worked... ruclips.net/video/yyrFYueZsnU/видео.html I guess the above video is either bogus or has a bug, dunno... I had given up on it so I made another search for a solution, thanks for reminding me of it. :)
Nice one Jason, that was nicely explained and demonstrated. I am a very new user of VLC and i want to hugely thank-you for making these videos, they have helped hugely. I have the current version of VLC and i am having intermittent issues when copying my Movie DVD's. The conversion takes place, sometimes it copies the whole film without the menus as your video shows, and other times, it doesn't. Am i missing something or is it how an individual DVD is set up?? Please help as my wardrobe is bursting with DVD's lol. Thank you, best regards Neil.
@@SuperPertinax Ooooh, i have that installed somewhere. Cheers Jason i will take a look at that. Many thanks, much appreciated. I look forward to your next video :-)
Thank you so much! Great delivery too. One idea for all you guys, I watch a lot of RUclips and have a good ad blocker. Need to reload the page at the beginning and press play, but 2 to 5 seconds beats bothersome ads. Also to download worthy video, I use Media Human's RUclips Downloader. It is lighting fast and you do not have to sit through the video to record it. There is 20 video download for free limit. Sort of... ;P
What about for a mac... I did all that you said but was unable to drag and drop my text file into the location of the youtube.luac file. I just doesn't let me drop it in there to replace it... what now?
I am also follwoing you as i am going to linux on my old laptop for a start and maybe put linux on all my devices later on when able to design like in autocad and photoshop ... i have seen it is possible with gnu etc... hopefully next year i'll be able to manage linux properly!!!!
The original youtube.luac file in program files is not a plain text file and is a much different size than the pasted replacement. Replacing the original youtube.luac in program files directory with the new youtube.luac file did not work for me.
I can see it's been a while since you did this video and followed your instructions all the way through. However it does not work for me. Any ideas. Regards Paul.
This didn't work for me. Let me ask you this one question...I did copy and paste to microsoft word...should I have copied that on notepad or some other word type document...because again, this didn't do anything for my laptop
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I'm a Brit living in Finland and use RUclips and other sites to download UK series that I can't view over here. I've spent weeks looking for an answer to this annoying problem and your tutorial has resolved the issue. Absolutely brilliant! If there were RUclips Tutorial medals you'd get a Gold! Thanks so much.
I found the issue ! Had to turn on logging to do so. VLC tries all the LUAC files to find one that can process the URL. I didn't delete the original LUAC file, I just renamed it. I didn't realize it was using a 'brute-force' approach to see what LUAC script would be able to process the URL. The log showed me that it found my renamed LUAC and it failed to extract the video file location. So I deleted the renamed LUAC and voila, it worked. And it didn't care where VLC was installed - I did test both the default 64-bit location and on another drive - same outcome. Thanks for this - a big time saver !
Well Done for sticking at it Peter
this
You're the man, Peter. Thanks! I had the same issue. Was driving me mad.
Super duper! :-)
how do u turn on logging?
Mac users:
The file location for the youtube.luac file is: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/share/lua/playlist/
And yes, this tip works on a Mac too!
Thank you, Jason for the update!
Thanks nitramdmij for the heads up for MAC users
Caution, luac files on a Mac are compiled files. Yes, they can be opened with a text editor but cannot be modified.
Thank a brunch for this video, I 'am so glad for folks like yourself who knows what going on!
How are very welcome Bill
Okay, had problems with the fix, but went back and followed his EXACT instructions at 5:00 (checking the box in options). Made all the difference and now works. Thank you for this video!!
you are most welcome
Just found this video after hunting for a fix, Sick of youtube asking for my details.
Very well explained. easy step by step, thank you so much. :)
your a legend bro, NO CLICKBAIT HERE! I appreciate an honest , straight up, content maker. thank you. Im just annoyed i didnt find you before i watched the 15 other shitty vids.
thanks Man!
That's was just great, I have been trying to sort this problem various ways, none of which worked, until I came back here where I got all the info to use VLC in the first place, to find you giving us another really well made easy to follow video to help us out. Brilliant, thank you.
Thanks john
Thank you ever so much for this video. I once used VLC to download the occasional video from youtube and then switched to using the Torch browser to download videos. Then I could no longer download any youtube videos at all. Starting around the second or third week of December 2019, something changed somewhere (perhaps over on youtube?) preventing me (and everyone else?) from downloading youtube videos. Curiously, when I look at the tabs that my Firefox browser shows me, I now see either (22) or (24) appended to the named tab right in front of the tab name. In the past, I do not think I ever saw this (22) or (24) appended to the named tab. Anyway, to make a long story short, I followed your instructions, exactly, on a Windows 10 laptop pc, using the 32 bit version of VLC, and your solution worked for me. I was able to download a youtube video. Thanks again!
4 k video downloader
You are very welcome John
@@gowdsake7103 i have done a tutorial on this :-)
@@gowdsake7103 yea, and the broadcasts?
Very rarely comment on RUclips videos, but had to give you thumbs up. It worked perfect.
your welcome
Three years later this video is a godsend. Thank you so much!!!!!!!
THANK YOU!
Confirmed working on macOS Catalina (10.15.16) & VLC media player 3.0.11 Vetenari ❤️
thanks for confirming :-)
Jason - Thank you. I followed your clear instructions and replaced the required file on my system drive. Mission accomplished. Thank you for uploading - Liked.
you are welcome
@@SuperPertinax What would you say to this please? I found this modified file didn't work if you copied to another Windows PC? I redone your process from that PC and all OK? The first VLC player was 32-bit, the second was 64-bit. The correct programme location was used as it is different as you mentioned but I was still surprised.
The script you provided fixed the issue!! thank you. No other script did
I found this, actually recognized your voice from your previous video (how bizarre I should do that) and so I knew the video would be coherent, comprehensive, yet efficient. Thanks.
I hope you collect some more revenue! As your last video's history showed, you might get a long-term increase in views! I had tried another person's help video first for this latest problem, but it wasn't clear, so I am glad you did this.
thanks very much :-)
My savior! I've been tinkering with VLC for a couple hours now trying to get it to stream and with your help it did the trick and is working now. Thank you very much for making this update video
You are most welcome
Got it to work... thanks a bunch. I don't know what I was doing wrong, but it worked when I just took the file that I downloaded instead of the copy/paste/rename thing. I saw many videos about this very thing but could follow none of them... You explained it very clearly.Thanks.
Absolutely brilliant. I thought I was doing something wrong until I found your video. Thanks again
you are very welcome Steve
Thank so much! I've been trying to figure this out for the last month and the other 'fixes' I've found on the net did not work. So again, I thank you sir.
you are welcome
correct
Thank You. I subscribed your channel.
I go as : Right click the VLC icon ---Open file location--- Left click Lua folder---Left click Playlist folder then lookfor youtube.lauc replace with your LUA file.
Saving you tube video is when I reach @8:23 I stop and go to Codec information then follow as the earlier you tube video downloading method .Cheers
I recently found that VLC allows you to change the pitch when playing content in it, and I've always wanted to do the same with music on RUclips. Thanks for posting the video because I can do it now :)
This guy is a genius as I have been having problems for weeks now and no help although I tried many things suggested elsewhere. Now I know where to go first, Thanks! Much!
You are very welcome G MaC
I have been working on this for some time with no result. I had the solution but I needed you to comfirm and help me really understand. Great work!
This was by far, the best video to help with my issue. Thank you. I'm very grateful.
I think we all know how helpful this fix was. Thank you so much.
Welcome
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH
i had been having to use vlc nightlies which i hate because of the new look and whenever you play a video it opens in a new window
you are the BEST
Very kind of you to learn about a problem, devise a solution and share that remedy with the rest of us. Thank you very much.
You are very welcome Patrick
I tried doing this exact method with the same script, but only your way worked. Other videos wanted me to edit the orignal .luac file, but it wouldn't let me save it. Dragging a premade text file into the folder and repalcing the original did the trick. Thanks a ton!
What a legend, finally now I can download videos and play videos with VLC
Just did everything you stated word for word and it worked perfectly sir... Thank you again for this video and easy to follow tutorial
Thank you so much for your help. It really does works and not very difficult to fix. I was making myself crazy watching other suggestions that didn't work.
You are very welcome
simple talk through is the key to solving problems thanks a mil.
You are very welcome
Worked a treat,brilliant,thankyou,been struggling with this issue for ages.
your welcome
actual life saver, thank you
welcome
I'm no computer expert but following your video got it right second time, thank you.
Stopped working last week : worked like a treat before, Thank You.
Resisted upgrading to latest version of VLC in case it negated the file patch.
Would you suggest upgrading VLC version or is there an updated lua file ?
Appreciate your input, Thanks
Thanks man, works for me. now i can see youtube videos on the vlc, because i'm using a old notebook with a terrible cpu.
update - saw a comment that it did not work on the 64bit version - so I removed the 64 bit version and installed the regular version - which i assume the 32 bit version - did all of the steps over again - to my surprise - IT WORKED
well done
funny I just saw your old video and downloaded the current VLC and it works still .There is also another way to paste the codec stream in a browser and right-click to save it. Much faster than having to record the entire video. What I want to know is how to record in the full 4K stream from VLC>
Thank you very much! This tutorial helped me a lot! Keep up the good work!
thanks
Thanks a lot for solving this problem. Great Video
You are Welcome Deepak
Jason, you just made me a very happy videophile! Thank you! You are the man!
THANK YOU! I followed all instructions and successfully altered the luac file YAY!!!!!
good to hear
Thank you for sharing your big knowledge with us. congratulation for being so unselfish .
thanks Ernesto
worked a treat thank you sooooo much ........have been trying to fix this for weeks
Fixed my problem. Thank you!
your welcome
Early 2023, still useful.
Thank you very much.
not sure why mine didn't work. I put the notepad file in the playlist folder and it remained a notepad file.
It worked. I played a video I closed VLC. Then when i restarted the programm it didn´t work anymore. I reset my settings put in the luac file again and it still doesnt work.
was watching youtube (VLC LUA FIX } Really like to watch. I thought I would try to fix My VLC I went to my Explorer & went through 12 steps to get to youtube.luac.That looked easy next I copy the address on your youtube Got to the copy that whole page.Did not see any place to paste and open The youtube.txt
Thanks for all your help I reinstalled VLC and let it use the internet on my PC, replaced the File and bob's your uncle it worked
Thanks for the video! Though it didn't completely work for me I was able to find a solution. For me the notepad file I created from copying and pasting the code into it kept saving as a text document instead of a LUAC file even though I did as you showed and added the ".luac" extension to the file name. And whenever I would try to just edit the original RUclips.luac file within the folder, windows wouldn't allow me to save the changes to the file saying I needed permission from the file creator despite me being the system administrator.
So my solution I came up with was to cut the original youtube.luac file from the folder and paste it to my desktop. Then while it was on my desktop and removed from the protected VLC folder I was able to delete the contents of the original file and paste the copied script from the webpage link onto the original file, then paste that same folder back into the VLC playlist folder. After that my problem was solved. Hope this helps someone else.
Well done for sticking with it
i get the same issue, but i cannot open the lua file. i tried downloading SuperPertinax lua file but it does not save as a lua file. what to do can you help me. thank you
Thank you very much!! Worked fine for me with win 10. I didn't know how to change the .txt extension into .luac extension, but in your description you have a link to your luac file. So I copied that into the folder and it did the job! Cheers!
you are awesome and made this so much easier than others, thank you
You are very welcome
Worked For Me Too, Thanks For Your Help. Your A Good Man.
thanks francis
Hi Jayson.. this video is very helpful . thank you man.
You are very welcome
Thanks for the video. Followed your instructions to the letter but still am unable to stream youtube videos. I have the latest VLC. Any thoughts? Thanks again!
Same , maybe the script is out of date?
Thank you soo much! This method has fixed the issue!
you are welcome
Nov. 2020 and it is still working. thanks!
good to hear, mine isnt :-( looks like i may need to do it again
Thanks friend . you are really a super man . after weeks of searching , now the vlc player able to play youtube video
Nah... NOT WORKING! I opened this site for the .lua file "github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua" copied and pasted just as you said but VLC still will not run any YT stream via URL... :(
@@travisloyd9030 - Nope... VLC 3.0.11 for Windows 64 bits, dunno why it does not work, does it work for you?
@@travisloyd9030 - I just found another solution that worked... ruclips.net/video/yyrFYueZsnU/видео.html
I guess the above video is either bogus or has a bug, dunno... I had given up on it so I made another search for a solution, thanks for reminding me of it. :)
Yep, that worked Used your video as the test subject, it's all good
i am on mac. i have replaced the file and now it shows up but duration is 0:00. possibly a coding difference between the two operating sysytems?
the problem with mac, is saving that file in Notes or even Google Docs didn't work for me, download His file ( 2nd link at the top ) and solved
I tried doing this but it is not working. Is Windows 10 prohibiting it? I followed the directions very carefully. Thanks though.
try downloading my LUA file here - www.his-best.co.uk/superpertinax/
@@SuperPertinax ：I did try to fix vlc problems but until this one link that is works, thank you so much...
Nice one Jason, that was nicely explained and demonstrated. I am a very new user of VLC and i want to hugely thank-you for making these videos, they have helped hugely. I have the current version of VLC and i am having intermittent issues when copying my Movie DVD's. The conversion takes place, sometimes it copies the whole film without the menus as your video shows, and other times, it doesn't. Am i missing something or is it how an individual DVD is set up?? Please help as my wardrobe is bursting with DVD's lol. Thank you, best regards Neil.
Thanks Neil
It might be worth trying my handbrake tutorial Neil
@@SuperPertinax Ooooh, i have that installed somewhere. Cheers Jason i will take a look at that. Many thanks, much appreciated. I look forward to your next video :-)
Thank you for the instructional video fix, all the best from Memphis, Tennessee!
Thank you so much! Great delivery too. One idea for all you guys, I watch a lot of RUclips and have a good ad blocker. Need to reload the page at the beginning and press play, but 2 to 5 seconds beats bothersome ads. Also to download worthy video, I use Media Human's RUclips Downloader. It is lighting fast and you do not have to sit through the video to record it. There is 20 video download for free limit. Sort of... ;P
I confirm, the fix works well. Thank you.
you are most welcome
Worked for me. Thank you.
Thank you soo much !!! this video really solved my problems!!!
you are very welcome
Thanks a lot. It worked for me (windows 10 64 bits). I downloaded the file and it worked fine.
cool glad to here it
What about for a mac... I did all that you said but was unable to drag and drop my text file into the location of the youtube.luac file. I just doesn't let me drop it in there to replace it... what now?
I am sure someone commented earlier about how this was done on a Mac
I am also follwoing you as i am going to linux on my old laptop for a start and maybe put linux on all my devices later on when able to design like in autocad and photoshop ... i have seen it is possible with gnu etc... hopefully next year i'll be able to manage linux properly!!!!
Thanks very much
The only sad thing about this, is that I can click on "Like" just once ! Thank you dear
ive been trying so many fixes for it but this one actually works, thx so much def subscribed
this is a lifesaver thank you
you are very welcome
Still working 2021, thanks mate !
The original youtube.luac file in program files is not a plain text file and is a much different size than the pasted replacement. Replacing the original youtube.luac in program files directory with the new youtube.luac file did not work for me.
Worked great for several months... tried to update the luac files from the link above and it's still not working.
I can see it's been a while since you did this video and followed your instructions all the way through. However it does not work for me. Any ideas. Regards Paul.
I have more problem, after close the program, and I turn on again, the problem still same.. how to solve it?
thank you man, such a headache to have to do this every few months. i always forget how i did it last time! haha.
very informative, thank you :)
Thanks. It works perfectly
Dude, you're a life saver! Still works like a charm 13 November 2020.
glad to hear it Joku
Update I can watch some of the video
like yours “RUclips VLC Stream LUA Fix”. “Terminator: The Dark
Years (A Future War Story)” I can't watch.
Seems to have stopped working again, even reapplying the fix.
Absolutely brilliant. Solved the problem. Thank you.
Thank you very. Ur a life saver
Thank You so much for sharing the knowledge you have. It worked . Great .
Thank you very much for this fix, appreciate it.
you are very welcome
Cheers, many thanks!
welcome
Thank you very much from Romania!
you are very welcome
What happend late last year? I just get flashes again. Tried downloading all again. Has something changed?
I'm good till you said I got a url here and copied it and pasted. Where did you get the url to copy it?
This didn't work for me. Let me ask you this one question...I did copy and paste to microsoft word...should I have copied that on notepad or some other word type document...because again, this didn't do anything for my laptop
Hi Robert, notepad would have been the way to go, however, you could always download my luac file which is linked in the description.
Cheers dude. Legend for this
thanks
Thank you very much for your precise and clear. instructions. It solved a problem that has puzzled me for the last week
Worked on Ubuntu 18 for me. Thanks!
Great
Nice walk threw 👍🏼
Thanks Joe
Worked like a charm... 👍