Can VLC stream a YouTube video?
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Mar 15, 202622194 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Is it possible to stream a particular YouTube video's content with VLC? The scenario is that you could paste a YouTube URL into a VLC dialog, and then have VLC stream the video as if it were a local media file. Current version - when trying to open a file or network stream results in VLC can't reco…
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Yes. If you grab the actual video stream file (using a youtube downloader site, or firefox add-in), and pasting the URL into VLC, it will stream/play the file. I do this all the time from an OS that doesn't support Flash (easily), but does support V…
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