How to watch YouTube Videos through VLC

Posted by Admin on Tuesday, 15 March 2016

A sample image of YouTube Video play in VLC media player

After one week of not making a tutorial about internet tricks now I decided to make one. Did you ever try to think if you can play YouTube Videos directly to your VLC media player? Today I will show you how to do it. This is an old YouTube trick, so this tutorial is for the folks only who don't know how to do it yet.

Requirements:
1. VLC media player
2. Internet connection
3. Any browser.

Step 1. Go to youtube.com ->>Open your desired YouTube Video to watch through VLC.
Step 2. Click on share button and copy the URL. See the image below.

Getting the URL of YouTube Video

Step 3. Open VLC media player ->> Media option ->> Open Network Stream

Open Network Stream menu in VLC media player

Step 4. A popup window will appear, in the text field just paste the YouTube URL you copied in the step 2 and click Play button.

Adding YouTube video URL to VLC network setting

Note: This is only a trick and not advisable to use every time you want to watch YouTube Videos. Try to do it just for fun.

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