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Unable to play youtube videos in VLC
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When trying to play a youtube video via VLC, the program exits.
Starting the program from the console prints out the following error:

[00007f063c025d98] gnutls tls session error: Certificate verification failure (0x0142)
[00007f063c025d98] gnutls tls session error:  * Certificate not verified
[00007f063c025d98] gnutls tls session error:  * Signer not found
[00007f063c025d98] gnutls tls session error:  * Signature algorithm insecure
[00007f063c025d98] core tls session error: TLS client session handshake error
[00007f063c000e68] http access error: cannot establish HTTP/TLS session
[00007f06440009b8] core input error: open of `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whatever' failed

According to https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=137596 this is a gnutls error, not having enabled certain flags at compilation time.

Best regards
DSanchez

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Thank you for mentioning this. I've been trying to figure out what the problem was with getting youtube-viewer to play videos through VLC. Same exact error.

The GnuTLS issue is fixed. You can try streaming from sites like dailymotion for example.
For VLC, you should get a different error now...

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