what is the trick to get vlc to play youtube clips via URL ?

[vhelp]

copy/paste where ? the playlist doesn't allow that. and you can't paste to the window. you can drag a url link into it but only if its comming from the browser window's url bar. but thats not what i would want anyone to do. it defeats the purpose--speed/flexibility.

[jagabo]

Open the playlist file in Notepad. Paste away.

[vhelp]

no, i figured out how to convert to playlist format. it was tricky bc videos wouldn't play at first. anyway. seems to work now. i'm testing the converter now.

[vhelp]

so this is smplayer's playlist window. notice how it doesn't really give you any clear identification of what video to play!

i found it better to load the playlist file through the menu \Open\Playlist method. i think that when you open it through the menu \Options\Playlist (or, ctrl+L) it wants to run them all through the internet to test each links validity, which is much slower since you have to wait for the list to complete.

[vhelp]

..and here is a slightly better SMPlayer playlist window -- you can use the [NAME] field as comments, so i discovered. a lot different than the one posted above. so now lets add the option for comments/descriptions in the playlist. . .

edit: oh my oh me.. i entered the comments to the wrong video ID's thats what i get for doing it manually.

[Chug a Bug]

so here is another wierd youtube behavior. opera is rejected, while IE 8 is not. does anybody have any ideas why ?

EDIT: also blocked in firefox

the youtube url link: http://www.youtube.com/v/Hr0Wv5DJhuk

does not play in opera


plays as-is in IE 8

Interesting... it plays in FF and IE for me but I get the same blocked message on Opera... VeVo is well known for geo-blocking of videos and for some reason there is some kind of authorisation failure somewhere and it gets it flagged down as a no-no