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Testing using this extension on a Pi 4 with a YouTube video failed with the following error:

[b1d18a90] lua stream error: Couldn't extract youtube video URL, please check for updates to this script

Doing a little searching led me to the solution here, which worked — seems like the lua script that scrapes the youtube page for the video needs to be updated when youtube makes changes...

So I had to remove the existing script that came with the VLC install and add the latest one from VLC source:

sudo rm /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.luac
sudo curl "http://git.videolan.org/p=vlc.git;a=blob_plain;f=share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua;hb=HEAD" -o "/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.luac"

It's possible that just updating VLC would have fixed this, which I didn't do — so maybe it would be worth adding the vlc install / upgrade to latest version in the install.sh for this extension?

Pi 3B+ (2017)
Rasbian Buster
VLC 3.0.7

Clips tested:
https://vimeo.com/andreynep/zeroing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qn_spdM5Zg

Additional information:
7 inch screen 1024x600 running in portrait mode (rotated 90 degrees)
gpu ram at default 64