Watching YouTube videos using VLC Media Player gives lots of options to you. You can skip adverts on youtube, keep videos on top, control playback speed, solve syncing problems, and loop your favourites. Its good if you already have VLC Media Player, but if you don’t have just download and Follow the following points to find out how.
Also see our previous posts VLC Media Player Tips to Achieve the Impossible and 4 ways to skip ads on YouTube.
1. To watch a YouTube video through VLC
Go to Media. 1 Open (advanced) and click the Network tab. 2 Copy your video’s URL 3 and paste it into the ‘Please enter a network URL’ box. Hit Enter or click Play.4 Any previous watched web videos are shown in the drop-down menu. 5
2. To expand your playback choices
Tick ‘Show more options’1. VLC caches a section of your video to prevent buffering. To extend the length of this cache, change the Caching number (in milliseconds). 2 You can also set how far through the video you want playback to start. 3
3. To play YouTube playlists
Install the Playlist add-on. It will create a file with a .lua extension. Move this file into the Playlist folder,1 found in C:/Program Files/VideoLAN/VLC/lua/playlist. Restart VLC and repeat Step 1, using the playlist’s URL.
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4. Looping videos and solving syncing problems
You can loop videos and shuffle playlists from the playback bar.1 To control the audio, click Extended Settings 2 and open Audio Effects.3 In Video Effects,4 you can change the video’s colour, rotate it,5 and more. Synchronisation6 fixes audio and video syncing problems.
5. To keep the YouTube video on top of other windows
Go to Video and choose ‘Always on Top’.1 You can also zoom,2 crop 3 and choose Take Snapshot,4 which takes a screengrab of the current frame and copies to the clipboard.
6. Control Playback Speed
From the Playback menu. you can change the video’s speed.1 You can also jump forward and backward by 10 seconds 2. or to a specific time. 3 Click Custom Bookmarks, Manage 4. and the current frame will be bookmarked.
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Yeah, VLC has made it completely flexible for youtube user. Even we can convert our video files according to our device like MP4, MP3, DAT etc
I have used VLC to convert video files from one format to other. No need to install video converter.
Good Article on the same
Great tip. VLC is a good program for videos of all kinds.
Useful Indeed..
I have got VLC on my PC but have never used it as I did not know its benefits. Thanks a lot for the info.
I never thought that VLC could be used in such a way. I do listen to YouTube songs via VLC once in a while, but never tried making a playlist. Let me try playlist add-on
Great tip, is there any way we could save the video directly from VLC?
thanx a lot for this tip…it will help me a lot…
It is true. VLC is such an easy option, when it comes to utilize You tube. We don’t have to install harmful third party software s or extensions which might harm the system. Nice post!
@ luck dark
i agree with you
Awesome tip. I remember we used to do lots of these experiments back in College. But VLC is our all time fav.//