Fixing VLC for Youtube

VLC is capable of playing Youtube videos by direct link.

This is broken in VLC version 3.0.8 which is used in Ubuntu 18.04.

Here’s a snippet to fix this:

VLC_YOUTUBE_PLUGIN_VERSION=8ed74ac # master as for 2020.06.15

cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/lua/playlist/  # or /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/
sudo youtube.luac{,.bak}
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/videolan/vlc/${VLC_YOUTUBE_PLUGIN_VERSION}/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua