How To Download Youtube Videos using VLC Media Player

[geeteam]

1. First of all you have to copy the url of that video which you want to watch or download from youtube .

2. Open VLC media palyer in your Computer.

3. Now Click on Media.

4. Click on Stream and move cursor to Network.

You can also open by pressing CTRL+N

5. Paste Url in box and click on play button on bottom side.

6. Now you will see that your video will start playing in VLC media Player.

7.While your video is playing in VLC, go to Tools option, Click on Media Information, This will open a media information window.

8. A dialog box will appear in which there is a information about your video.

9. At bottom you will see a Location box.

10. Copy the location and paste it in any browser and hit enter. i.e. Google Chrome

11. This will open a particular Youtube in your browser.While Playing video in browser Right Click on Video and Click Save Video as and save Video in your Computer.

12. In other browsers except Google chrome, you need to add file extension like mp4, flv, mpeg after file name while saving YouTube video.

Now your favorite YouTube video will start to download at desired location. You can watch downloaded YouTube video after download completes.

So in this way, you will be able to download YouTube videos direct to your computer without using any web services but using only VLC media player in full HD.

[Pete 12]

Have you tried YouTube Downloader?

Muuuch faster and very easy to handle, try it,you will see!

[212eta]

http://keepvid.com/

[Cyberboom]

Then ,how to download a Youtube video with different quality settings via same method ? :rolleyes:

[csicsu46]

http://keepvid.com/

thx for it this is great..!!!

vlc method is CRAP :D sorry free yotub downloader or any other portable youtube downloader. and what about when yout must log in to jutub ?

[sanjoa]

aTube Catcher does the job very well too :)

[Bob1st]

I just use the Video DownloadHelper add on for firefox. Works for all streams mostly.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

Direct download: https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net/storage/public-staging/3006/video_downloadhelper-4.9.21-fx+sm.xpi

[eurobyn]

and the files on YouTube with VEVO ? can you download thisones 2 ?

[vregu]

Thanks for the post. Is always important to know something new..

I Use IDM... ;)

[jackieo]

Heres how I do it, and I think it beats all the above methods ! Works with Chrome and Firefox*

*but Firefox wins because of DownThemAll Addon (download accelerator) http://www.downthemall.net/

making PwnYouTube + FF + DownThemAll = Thee fastest way I have found to get that video :)

1. Click this - http://deturl.com/bookmarklet-to-directly-download-videos-from-youtube.asp

2. Drag the link to your bookmarks bar - (This photo shows Chrome, by the way) :doh:

3. Find your video, then click the PwnYouTube button - (This, and all following photos are Firefox) ;)

4. The Yellow bar pops up, choose which one you want, and click -

For the benefit of new viewers, heres how to config DownThemAll for best performance in 3 steps http://www.downthemall.net/ addon for Firefox

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Edited January 9, 2014 by jackieo