VLC Error “Your Input Can’t be Opened”

[ARN1SH]

Tried till 5th
https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/vlc-your-input-cant-be-opened.html

[pb581]

That is because the MRL is expired; it's from when I uploaded the repo here (you can see that MRL expired at 1639572284 UNIX time, which was on 15 Dec 2021, around the time I uploaded the repo).

Run the lofi_set.bat script, not the lofi.bat one, to fetch a fresh playback url first, it will call other scripts as needed. Let me know if the issue is resolved.

[ARN1SH]

I saw the error after running lofi_set.bat

[pb581]

I saw the error after running lofi_set.bat

Hmm, that is weird. That means the python script yt_stream.pyw that is supposed to fetch a new MRL isn't working for you. Just to make sure, have you installed the listed dependencies (pafy) for python for the script to work? If not, run pip install pafy from the command line first and then run lofi_set.bat.

[pb581]

I pushed a few changes to log what's happening. Clone the repo again (run git clone https://github.com/pb581/lofi-chill/ && cd lofi-chill if you have git available from command line or manually clone the repo) and then run start lofi_set.bat

There should be a log.txt generated post execution. If problem persists, post the log file here for me to see what's happening on your end. And like I said in the previous comment, you need the pafy module installed for the script to work.

[ARN1SH]

I saw the error after running lofi_set.bat

Hmm, that is weird. That means the python script yt_stream.pyw that is supposed to fetch a new MRL isn't working for you. Just to make sure, have you installed the listed dependencies (pafy) for python for the script to work? If not, run pip install pafy from the command line first and then run lofi_set.bat.

Installed the dependencies before running the script.

[ARN1SH]

It creates the log.txt but no log is outputted in it.

However the error is outputted in the terminal.

[pb581]

D'oh! I forgot to list youtube-dl as a required dependency.

[pb581]

I added a requirements.txt file to use with pip and an installation procedure in the README; also a hotfix for pafy that is needed (the official repo is not maintained anymore: it is a fix for mps-youtube/pafy#306). Go to %localappdata%\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages\pafy\ and overwrite the backend_youtube_dl.py there with the one given in the \hotfix\ directory of this repo. It should work (I checked it just now in a virtual env).

[ARN1SH]

Issue solved!