How to download any Video from YouTube Using VLC media Player

After playing a YouTube video online, you may want to download it, but to do so you need some kind of tools like YouTube Downloader app on your PC/laptop or your phone, if you don’t have that at hand, this blog is for you, just download any YouTube video using VLC media player

 

To download YouTube video using VLC media player:

1^st:  Go to VLC installation folder playlist directory , it usually is found at: C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist

 

 From the play list directory, open youtube.luac file in any text editor, check its content, definitely it is a kind of encrypted text, so we need to delete this file and change it with another same file name with content that will help us to download YouTube video

 

2^nd: Open this link and copy all its contents :

 http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob_plain;f=share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua;hb=HEAD

 

3^rd:  paste the all the text you copied from the above link in any text editor and save it with the name youtube.luac (the name should be the same us the previous file).

Don’t forget to choose All files from the save as type drop down menu , as shown below.

 

4^th: Now copy the file you have saved as youtube.luac and replace/overwrite the file that exists in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist

 

Now after replacing, the file should not be encrypted as before, open and check

 

 5^th : Once you did the above four steps , now you can download YouTube videos using VLC  , open VLC , go to media  , then select Open Network stream

 

 6^th: From the Network Stream Window, click on Network tab and then copy and paste the video link you want to download from YouTube and click on Play , Wait until the Video starts to play, it might take few seconds to play depending on your connection speed

  

7^th:  Once the Video started to play, go to Tools, then click on Codec information 

          

 

8^th:  From codec information window, click the codec tab, then copy all the text from location text box at the bottom , make sure you copied all the text inside the location text box

 

 

9^th: Now, open your browser and paste the, URL you copied from location text box to address bar of the browser, 

 

10^th: Once the Video started to play in the browser, Right click on it and choose, save video as

 Finally, save the video as .mp4 file format and don’t forget to choose All files from the save as file type dropdown menu.

 

 

Now your video file should start downloading

 

Done!

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