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belaviyo / send-to-vlc

A Webextension to send streamble media sources to VLC (VideoLAN) media player
http://add0n.com/send-to-vlc.html
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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VLC won't play Youtube videos #14

Open Random-G opened 6 years ago

Random-G commented 6 years ago

At first, everything worked fine until a system update (Ubuntu 18). Now whenever I send a video link to VLC (using the add-on), it says "Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10))". However, drag-and-drop the video link to VLC still works.Web browser: Opera. Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eL-kFeJ6M8. Edit: Tried on Firefox and it's working fine. I think the add-on isn't working well with Opera. As I remember, the system update yesterday included Opera as well.

belaviyo commented 6 years ago

So does the extension send the real video URL? Can you confirm this on the playlist section of the VLC

Random-G commented 6 years ago

screenshot from 2018-09-29 15-56-10 This is the screenshot. The playlist shows the video title. It only plays the audio. screenshot from 2018-09-29 16-04-58

andy-portmen commented 6 years ago

Check the playlist for the actual URL. Maybe the extension is sending a wrong URL instead of the page URL.

Random-G commented 6 years ago

screenshot from 2018-09-29 16-17-30 It says https://r4---sn-8px...16.119

belaviyo commented 6 years ago

That's weird. The extension is not supposed to track the video URL in YouTube pages. What is your browser?

Random-G commented 6 years ago

Opera Stable v56 (latest).

belaviyo commented 6 years ago

Did you press the toolbar button to send the URL?

Random-G commented 6 years ago

Yes, I did.

belaviyo commented 6 years ago

How about the new release?

Random-G commented 6 years ago

screenshot from 2018-10-03 18-09-36 Sad to say this, but the problem still exists. I saw that the existing add-on in Opera was v0.2.0, but it was v0.2.1 in the extension store, so I decided to delete it and re-install it again to no avail. It kept giving me an error message as shown in the screenshot. Therefore, I can't test it right now.

Random-G commented 6 years ago

Ok. Now I can install the add-on. Still, it gives the same error. This is the URL of the same video I got from VLC: https://r4--...Iv4CoBg