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Whenever I pause a YouTube video which is playing in VLC for a few minutes and resume it, it simply plays a few seconds (presumably until the end of some cache) and then stops playback. Is there some way to get it to resume the connection to YouTube and continue playing/downloading?

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  • That's why I use `cclive`! :P – Marco Mar 16 '13 at 17:56
  • @Marco This works fine in Chromium (and used to work in Firefox until Flash started crashing), and `cclive` is a completely different use case. I'm using `vlc` to work around [fullscreen issues](http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68156/how-to-keep-youtube-video-fullscreen-after-moving-mouse-to-other-screen-in-aweso), and I don't want to wait for the entire 1080p video to be downloaded before starting to watch. – l0b0 Mar 16 '13 at 17:59
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    Using [`smtube`](http://sourceforge.net/projects/smplayer/files/SMTube/) and not regretting it here – Deer Hunter Mar 16 '13 at 18:33
  • Still happens with `vlc 2.2.1` – Ortomala Lokni Sep 27 '15 at 20:48
  • don't pause it. rewind instead. – Jasen Dec 30 '16 at 01:39

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This seems to be fixed in VLC 2.2.3. Changelog states

  • Fix resume where you left off

You can find much more info in https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS or https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.2.3.html

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