[thatloststudent]

I tried the same route, but got the logs correctly. It gave me a HTTP 410 error. I wouldn't be surprised at all if VLC's youtube plugin is just too old and there's a better one somewhere else. But in the meanwhile, mpv's plugin works (if you're using yt-dlp and not youtube-dl, that is)

[oblio]

Logs not being directly visible in the VLC UI and not having a default log file location plus the fact that even going to advanced settings and configuring things doesn't make logs show up after the first try is not Google's fault, though.

[allarm]

It's hardly a fault though. And if you need this feature go ahead and implement it.

[oblio]

The first part is a feature, the second one is a bug.

And no, I don't think I will, I'll just use Youtube with ad blockers for as long as I can.

[dredmorbius]

Despite having defended FOSS and advocated VLC ... I understand your viewpoint here. Calling on people to contribute bugfixes isn't especially realistic. Filing a bug on the fact that VLC has poor debug/log tools would be helpful though.

Particularly as a useful logging / debugging capability should enable more useful bug reports specific to function.

Sorry it's not working out for you, thanks for trying regardless.

[oblio]

I'm just jaded at this point. FOSS won the battle and lost the war. It's been subsumed into the bowels of these corporations that are ending up mega predatory.