Hi @bunjee and everybody else!
There is a rare issue which is affecting both the Linux and the Windows version: some YouTube video don’t start at all. For example this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAgYFxmOVc
I tried to figure out why, but I couldn’t find any reason yet what can be the problem. I hope you have some idea.
Thanks for the great work and the help,
GPL
Greetings @GPL,
Could you give 1.4.0-6 a spin: http://omega.gg/MotionBox/get.
It should fix the Youtube implementation.
It is working now, thank you! 
I can confirm it too, works fine on Debian testing.
Speaking of the Linux version have you noticed anything regarding gui / video rendering.
I’ve recently switched to OpenGL ES and I’m not sure it’s the best move regarding performances.
The GUI and the video playback both very smooth, so I think it’s OK.
On my machine If I play one video and don’t do anything else, it uses ~9% CPU and ~250 MB RAM. If I make some user interaction when a video is playing, then the CPU usage value changes to ~15%. So I think the current version has quite good performance.
Hi @bunjee!
This issue emerged again for me, but now a huge amount of YouTube won’t start with the latest version (e.g. including the video from the first post) for weeks now.
Also there is a problem If I copy YouTube video url into MotionBox, the program don’t show its title, only saying “Youtube track”. I can bypass this issue If I search the title of the video on YouTube from the builtin search box.
I tried to corner both issues, but no luck for now.
A saw that 1.6.0 released and it looks like solving both problems.
Greetings @GPL, that’s good news, I keep on iterating to make things better.
Unfortunately I cannot test the linux version extensively. Don’t hesitate to report an issue on here or GitHub.
Hi @bunjee
Excellent work on Motionbox. Love it so far!
I’m having trouble getting a few Youtube videos to start. I think someone told me it was a VLC error with youtube.lua?
Currently running MotionBox 1.6.0-3
Yeah It’s actually using VBML -> Video Backend Markup Language.
It looks like this: https://github.com/omega-gg/backend/blob/master/youtube.vbml
Could you provide a video that doesn’t play ?