Youtube live stream does not play.

Bug #1600645 reported by Ian Turner
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vlc (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Only get first frame of low-resolution video. vlc -vvv output for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtUucAcQoaE attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: vlc 2.2.2-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jul 10 16:36:20 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-07 (1372 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120822.4)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-09 (91 days ago)

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Ian Turner (vectro) wrote :
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John Tollendal (johntollendal) wrote :

Check if you have set a proxy host on vlc. This can cause the problem, some proxy limitation, vlc will not to play youtube video with some proxies (I tested this here).

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Ian Turner (vectro) wrote :

No proxy set, either in VLC or system settings. Thanks for the suggestion though.

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Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher) wrote :

Works with 3.0.0.

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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