It will open the file manager and ask you whether you want to save this video locally or not. Now, right-click on playing video and you will get an option for “Save Video As”. Open any of your favorite browsers and paste copied location link to the new tab and it will start playing the exact video in the browser. Copy Location link Step 4: Paste Location Link to New Tab You just have to copy the location link and 90% of our task is complete. It will bring detailed info about currently streaming video. Click on Tools and then Codec Information To open the Codec Information prompt, you can use the shortcut CTRL + J or you’ll find the option for Codec Information under “Tools”. Under the codec information prompt, we will get a location link for the currently playing video. Paste video link here Step 3: Get Location Link from Codec Information I know it just plays video in our VLC but there is a little extra step that will allow us to download currently streaming video. Now, you just have to paste copied YouTube video link and click on the play button. Click on Media and select Open Network Stream You can also use the shortcut to open Network Stream CTRL + N.

Just click on Media and you will get the option of “Open Network Stream”. The option of Network stream lies under Media which is the first option of our top menu bar. Step 2: Paste copied Link to Network Stream You can use any of your favorite browsers and copy the video link from the address bar. Step 1: Get the Video link of your desired video Important: Before copying the link from YouTube, make sure to choose desired video quality from the YouTube player because we will get the same quality in which the video was streaming while copying the link. Use a browser extension or use dedicated websites or tools for it.īut if you don’t want to use anything additional, the already installed VLC player can be used for this purpose. Now, there are ways to download YouTube videos.

Download YouTube videos with VLC Media Player You can play YouTube videos in VLC and download them too. I’ll demonstrate a simple VLC feature and that is to download YouTube videos with it. You’ll be surprised to learn what VLC is capable of. It provides a number of multimedia and network-related features among other things. VLC is one of the most popular video players for Linux and other platforms.

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