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自动选题: 20191230 Fixing “VLC is Unable to Open the MRL” Error [Quick Tip]
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+[#]: subject: (Fixing “VLC is Unable to Open the MRL” Error [Quick Tip])
+[#]: via: (https://itsfoss.com/vlc-is-unable-to-open-the-mrl/)
+[#]: author: (Abhishek Prakash https://itsfoss.com/author/abhishek/)
+
+Fixing “VLC is Unable to Open the MRL” Error [Quick Tip]
+======
+
+One of the [VLC tips][1] is to play YouTube and other online videos with [VLC][2]. This could help you [watch online videos with subtitles][3].
+
+But things may not always be simple because at times you’ll encounter this error when trying to open YouTube video with VLC:
+
+**Your input can’t be opened:
+VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘<https://youtubeurl.com’>. Check the log for details.**
+
+![VLC error while playing YouTube videos][4]
+
+The thing here is that Google doesn’t want you to use any third party application for watching YouTube because then they cannot collect data properly.
+
+So, they keep changing stuff from their side to make it harder for third party devs to work with YouTube.
+
+Take [youtube-dl][5] for example. You’ll notice that you cannot [download YouTube videos][6] with it all of a sudden and the simplest solution is to have the latest version of youtube-dl installed.
+
+Same goes for VLC. If you [install the latest VLC in Ubuntu][7] or whichever operating system you are using, you probably won’t see this error.
+
+### Fixing “VLC is unable to open the MRL” error
+
+Let me show you the steps to fix this problem for YouTube at least.
+
+Go to this page and use Ctrl+S to save the file from the official GitHub repository of VLC media player:
+
+[Download youtube.lua file][8]
+
+Now, what you need to do is to replace the youtube.luac (mind the ‘c’ in luac) in lib/vlc/lua/playlist directory with this downloaded file.
+
+#### Steps for Linux
+
+If you are using Linux, open the terminal and use the [locate command][9] to find the exact location of youtube.luac file:
+
+```
+locate youtube.luac
+```
+
+When you get the path of the file, you just replace that file with your downloaded file. I trust you to handle this simple task.
+
+For me, it showed the path of the file here:
+
+```
+[email protected]:~$ locate youtube.lua
+/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.luac
+```
+
+So all I did was to move the downloaded file to this location and replace the content of the file:
+
+```
+sudo cp ~/Downloads/youtube.lua /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.luac
+```
+
+You should be able to play the YouTube videos in VLC now.
+
+#### Steps for Windows
+
+If you are using Windows, you should follow these steps:
+
+  * Rename the downloaded youtube.lua file to youtube.luac
+  * Now copy this file and paste it to C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\
+
+
+
+That’s it.
+
+If you have trouble with Dailymotion or other video streaming websites, you can download their respective lua files from the VLC repository [here][10] and replace the existing one in your VLC install.
+
+I hope this quick tip fixed the problem with VLC unable to play YouTube videos for you.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+via: https://itsfoss.com/vlc-is-unable-to-open-the-mrl/
+
+作者：[Abhishek Prakash][a]
+选题：[lujun9972][b]
+译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
+校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
+
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+
+[a]: https://itsfoss.com/author/abhishek/
+[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
+[1]: https://itsfoss.com/simple-vlc-tips/
+[2]: https://www.videolan.org/index.html
+[3]: https://itsfoss.com/penguin-subtitle-player/
+[4]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/vlc_error_input_cant_be_played.png?ssl=1
+[5]: https://itsfoss.com/download-youtube-linux/
+[6]: https://itsfoss.com/download-youtube-videos-ubuntu/
+[7]: https://itsfoss.com/install-latest-vlc/
+[8]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/videolan/vlc/master/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua
+[9]: https://linuxhandbook.com/locate-command/
+[10]: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/share/lua/playlist