VLC Integration

[sky7176]

Good morning,
For a few days now, I haven't been able to use the VLC integration in OBS.

It seems like the problem is with VLC. Have you encountered this problem?

We use VLC to create video feeds from some of our YouTube channels that we use as external sources.

Do you have any alternatives?

I haven't found anything online recently that addresses the issue. I tried replacing the youtube.luac file, but nothing worked.

Thanks

Giuseppe

 

[sky7176]

I managed to partially resolve the issue.

I basically don't pass the YouTube video URL to the VLC source, for example, https://youtu.be/4jx0xcRcM3U
but a URL that points to an index.m3u8 file.

Something like this:

https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/expire/1769546335/ei/_814aeTjItrQ6dsP-eWs2Q4/ip/151.18.127.167/id/4jx0xcRcM3U.740/itag/301/source/yt_live_broadcast/requiressl/yes/ratebypass/yes/live/1/sgoap/gir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D140/sgovp/gir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D299/rqh/1/hls_chunk_host/rr1---sn-fpoq-hm26.googlevideo.com/xpc/EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D/playlist_duration/30/manifest_duration/30/bui/AW-iu_pwQU8p598gYj-CcIXd7aJS6mEKsuFb5FopeB4IKcz90TRrKfsJbA7ksa4ewDgmFJ94ZTjuC_H4/spc/q5xjPKA0hKnUK41gYAfK/vprv/1/playlist_type/DVR/initcwndbps/1557500/met/1769524736,/mh/-D/mm/44/mn/sn-fpoq-hm26/ms/lva/mv/m/mvi/1/pl/24/rms/lva,lva/dover/11/pacing/0/keepalive/yes/fexp/51552689,51565115,51565682,51580968/mt/1769524352/sparams/expire,ei,ip,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,live,sgoap,sgovp,rqh,xpc,playlist_duration,manifest_duration,bui,spc,vprv,playlist_type/sig/AJEij0EwRAIgajxq93_A6toKD2GXM_Q8q25pGHTKe0yWUYm4CtguQMkCIGasD9WPWY8so805CAof6fXkA-O2VGJ4vY-h_HHgHN4G/lsparams/hls_chunk_host,initcwndbps,met,mh,mm,mn,ms,mv,mvi,pl,rms/lsig/APaTxxMwRQIhAN2Zd-HwV-7vYBDQFFtE565eduDkXJgX0zj_1Cjr5776AiBYlcd4zfwJVveFeYl2yxIf6YJ8mavzb-8oZJiL1zudbQ%3D%3D/playlist/index.m3u8

I have no idea if this m3u8 file might change over time; if so, I'll recreate it, or if it stays the same.

But at least this way I can use our YouTube feeds.

To create the URL to the index.m3u8 file, I used a Python script. I'll share it if you're interested.

This will continue until VLC works as it did before.

Giuseppe