At the bottom of the window is the direct URL to the video. How to Play YouTube Videos in VLC Media Player Click on Media > Open Network Stream CTRL + N Enter the direct YouTube URL to the video. OS Information: No LSB modules are available. Once the YouTube video is playing, visit the Tools menu in VLC and click Media Information (Ctrl/CMD + I hotkey). So how do I play YouTube videos in VLC Player? Or don’t I? I mean, I know you can download YouTube videos using it, so why not play them?
Do not forget to undo the changes: go back to Folder options, then click on the View tab and select the Restore Defaults button. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.
Now compare the extension of old and new video files. http access error: error: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Uncheck Hide extensions for the known file types. lua demux error: Couldn't process youtube video URL, please check for updates to this script core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. That does work but I am experiencing two problems: When I jump to a given position using the slider the playback does not seem to resume normally from that position but it is constantly buffering and then playing a few. I am wanted to play YouTube videos through VLC Player, so I launched VLC Player and did "Open Location from clipboard", but when trying to get it to play this video I just get this error: Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRLĪnd this output in Terminal: VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision 2.2.1-0-ga425c42) Since neither firefox nor chrome seem to use hardware acceleration for youtube videos I am now trying to play them using vlc.