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Lawrence D?Oliveiro  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=k083aZHbLNaMl
8PvrCu0As&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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