"Insecure site" messages when getting cover art
When I watch Freebox TV (from French ISP provider free.fr) in VLC, I have some "Insecure site" warnings from time to time: Example: "You attempted to reach lafibre.info. However the security certificate presented by the server is unknown and could not be authenticated by any trusted Certification Authority"
URL can be lafibre.info, lh3.ggpht.com, lh4.ggpht.com ... (the later are legitimate Google servers)
OS: Windows 8.1 x64 VLC : 2.1.0 (vlc-2.1.0-win32.exe) Command line: vlc.exe http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u I have a Freebox V6 with IPV6 activated.
See also my post in Windows forum: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=114740
And this post in Linux forum: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=113982
This issue is related to pictures (see attached screenshots)displayed when playlist is shown or when live video cannot be displayed. It is very easy to reproduce the problem in a virtual machine in VirtualBox because live video does not work so I have the problem every time I change channel.
Possible workaround: Either do not check "Automatically retrieve media info" on "Privacy and Network Access Policy" window which is shown the first time VLC is run.
Or later in VLC interface settings, change "Album art download policy" to "Manual download only". The problem happens when "Album art download policy" is set to "As soon as track is added".
I'm not sure how this bug should be solved : if "insecure site" messages cannot be avoided, maybe improve search engine that looks for pictures or do not display picture for Freebox TV channels.