No doubt, VLC is one of the best free open source media player that can play all type of media formats. You can do really interesting things with VLC media player . Here I come up with a simple trick that can enable you to download videos from YouTube using VLC .
VLC support streaming media from the popular video sharing Website like YouTube. You can watch YouTube Video right inside your VLC Player which is a great fun but its useless as there is an built-in video player on YouTube.
There is another way to take advantage of this feature of VLC. You can use VLC to download your favorite videos from YouTube. Here’ re steps to download YouTube Video without using any online website or Video Downloader :
Step 1 - Copy the URL of Video you want to download.
Step 2 – Open VLC media player. Go to Media< Open a network stream. Paste the URL in Network Protocol text box and click the play button. The Video start playing in the VLC media player.
Step 3- Now, you can either record the video playing in the VLC player or alternate method – Go to Tools< Media Information. Copy the location of YouTube video that is playing in the VLC player .
Step 4 – Open browser and paste the copied location to the address bar and press enter key . The video will start playing inside the browser. Press CTRL + S to save the video to the hard disk of your computer as shown below.
Once the download process complete , play and enjoy the downloaded video with VLC player or any other player install on you computer. As we know, VLC is a cross platform software, same trick is applicable to other OS like Linux and Mac.
You may also like : Display Song lyrics in iTunes | Display Songs Lyrics in Windows Media Player | A Music Video Created by Using VLC