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[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I also learned that you can copy a video link and paste it into VLC media player and it will play!

You can also use this trick to download YouTube videos without the need of a 3rd party website!

  1. Copy the URL of the YouTube video you wanna download

  2. VLC / Media / Open network stream... And paste your URL

  3. Once the video has opened, Tools / Media Information

  4. Copy the URL in the "Location" field and paste it into your web browser, you should have the option to save the video

It's a couple of steps but once you memorize what you need to do it's a million times faster (and I'd wager equally times as private) than finding one of those websites to give you a link.

[–] imecth@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

or just use youtube-dl
edit: here's an electron gui wrapper: youtube-dl-gui

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

Yes! Though yt-dlp has been the preferred fork for a good while now. yt-dlg is a nice GUI that supports downloading with the fork.

[–] indomara@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Neat! I figured out accidentally that you don't have to do step 2, you can just open VLC and ctrl+v!

I am downloading a test video now, thanks that's very cool!

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice, step 3 can also be accomplished with CTRL-I, at least on the windows version of VLC

[–] indomara@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Amazing! I showed my husband last night, he was equally amazed. :)