HOW to play or download Youtube videos in VLC medial player

Hi friends!!! Today I am going to share a cool and simple TEKITRICK, How to play and download YouTube videos using VLC media player. Downloading videos through VLC media player is simple, safe and secure. You can download any videos on online using VLC media player. I know there are many software's, websites available to download YouTube videos. But here I am going to explain downloading You Tube videos via VLC media player because it is very simple.

Below are the advantages of using this trick

1. We can see the youtube videos in VLC media player. So we can apply the VLC player feature/shortcuts on the video (like Mute, pause, forward, etc.,) . Follow the below explained procedure till step 3 to know.
2. We can see the youtube videos without Advertisements.
3. If you want to download any video then it is easy to download with VLC. And we don't require any additional software (Like youtube video downloader ) required in our system to download these videos.
4. Generally this video will download in '.mp4' format. but after downloading the video using VLC we can convert the video into any other format using same VLC software. This already explained in the one of the post Convert format of video without using any software - VLC player trick

The steps to be followed to download YouTube videos using VLC media player:-

Step 1: Copy the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the video you want to download from the browser’s address bar.

Step 2: Now go to VLC media player, click on Media in the menu bar and go to stream (or press ctrl + s) then a window like below is opened then go to Network.

           Media->stream->open network network

                    Note: Please use latest version of VLC media player. Some old versions of VLC media players are getting some network errors. 

Step 3:  Now paste the URL of the video you want to download in the space provided. Then hit the play button (available in the choice box) to play the video.

For just playing your video using VLC media player you just required the above 3 steps.

Further if you want to download the video you have to follow these steps too.

Step 4: For downloading the video pause the video that is playing now and go to Tools in the menu bar and then go to codec information or press ( Ctrl + j ).

             Then a window like below is appeared then go to Codec. Now copy the text in the location field.

Step 5: Now paste the text that you copied in the address bar of you browser (like chrome, Mozilla fire fox etc.,) and press enter. Then you can see that your video is playing.

To save your video right click on the video and select Save video as option to download your video. Now change the name of the video and add ".mp4" to the video name click on save. Now your video is started downloading into your system. If you want to change the format of video then lick on then go to the the link (Convert format of video without using any software - VLC player trick)

Thanks for reading!!  Please share the knowledge that you know!!!