Download Youtube Videos Using VLC Media Player Free

[BlackTopHat]

Didn't see this anywhere and am not certain where to put it but if you want to download Youtube Videos (for personal use only of course), Use VLC Media Player.

Copy a URL from a YouTube video, then open up VLC. From the Media menu select Open Network Stream(Ctrl+N) and paste in the URL. Click Play. When the video is playing, go to Tools > Codec Information. There is a box at the bottom called "Source"—copy the URL you find in that box.

Go back to your browser and paste the URL—it's a temporary web address and will expire eventually—in the address bar and start playing the video. When you're viewing the video in the browser, you'll see an option to download the file to keep locally.

However, it appears that VLC is only going to save your file as 1080p and not any higher, even if the original YouTube stream was available in 1440p or 2160p (aka 4K). It also won't convert video to other formats.

Enjoy!

[BlackTopHat]

Mods please feel free to put this in the proper catagoty if this is the wrong place.

[JesseJames]

Thanks for this method.

[CanhCam Guy]

Thanks and rep+++ for good tips!
Anyway, I use IDM to download YT videos easily!

[gnomex35]

max repped for this simple and easy. nice tip

[discomix]

well nice nifty tutorial mate to dump those YT video's in you basket using VLC player!!

[dougkpga]

Works so well - thank you so much. I was going to buy aqua clip or premium video downloadhelper.

Cheers

[mthomas]

Good tutorial, thanks.

PS - Just to list another YT downloader tool, I use Clipgrab.