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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by AdmiralAsshat on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:49PM (#25993708)
This might just be my own environment, but it seems like VLC's ability to stream from Youtube breaks very frequently.

Is that just a side-effect of Google constantly updating their YT infrastructure, or do you believe they are intentionally introducing changes to sabotage the ability for third-party programs such as VLC to render their streams?

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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by jbk on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:08PM (#25993981)
They change the layout of the pages often, to block VLC and youtube-dl
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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by Moru on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @01:19AM (#25997926)
Doubt they care about that, it's just a sideeffect of redesigning for the sake of redesigning. You see this everywhere, not just youtube.
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