Now, open tools > Codec information. You can alternatively press Ctrl+J. In the Network Tab paste the YouTube URL you just copied and Hit Play. We are going to stream the video in VLC in order to download it. In VLC Media Player, go to Media > Network Stream. Downloading YouTube Videos using VLC Media PlayerĬopy YouTube link from your browser. But, VLC and other software do the same stuff as I explained above. For now, let’s see how you can download YouTube video from VLC Media Player. Well, I’ll explain this in some other article. If you open the source of YouTube video page and search for “videoplayback” you’ll find many links with it. The video link starts with /videoplayback.
So, there should be a specific link to that video. You might be thinking how these software and websites would be downloading the YouTube videos from Google’s server? (Well, it’s illegal to download video from YouTube without owner’s permission. Well, talking about doing things manually, let’s have a programmatic view on downloading YouTube videos. This is the best manual way to download YouTube videos if you don’t want to use any software or any third party plugins. One of the cool stuff you can do is download YouTube videos right from the Video Player. Considering that you can do a lot of stuff with VLC. Also known as the Swiss Army Knife of Multimedia players. Well, almost every one uses VLC media player.
