vlc sometimes aborts before finishing youtube streams

[gregrwm]

this has happened to me a number of times, interestingly vlc gets near to the end of a youtube video, but not finished, then sometimes aborts looking like it finished. for example i just invoked

vlc --disable-screensaver 'http://youtu.be/wKTXJUYiAT4?fmt=43'

and it aborted at about 4:10 out of 5:07. i pressed play, positioned it to about 4:00, and it aborted again at about 4:58. i pressed play again, positioned it to about 4:30, and then it did get to the end. then i invoked

vlc http://youtu.be/wKTXJUYiAT4

and it played all the way through. then i played the former again, and it aborted at about 4:58. then i played the latter again, and it played all the way through. so is it related to the variation in the parameters, or is it just plain spurious?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: vlc 2.2.2-5ubuntu0.16.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-71.92-generic 4.4.49
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-71-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 10 11:55:14 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-15 (176 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720)
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Please install the corresponding -dbgsym packages and provide a backtrace of the crash.

[gregrwm (gregrwm)]

it doesn't "crash". play aborts, behaving as if the video played to the end. if a backtrace would be useful at that point, please drop a pointer how to trigger it.