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Although it doesn't have a specific download feature, if you hit the record button, your YouTube movie gets saved to disk while you watch it. This is the same as downloading.

Hi, I was recently looking for an all-in-one solution that would allow me to search & play YouTube videos without even starting a browser to avoid using bloatware (Chrome instances eat up 300 MB if I open up the YouTube search page.. big shame of the 21st century). I found MiniTube and it wasn't...

Hi, I use VLC to watch YouTube videos. This way I can avoid wasting my resources (CPU, GPU, memory) and don't have to use bloatware (YouTube in a browser). Sometimes I also download videos, but I can't always determine if I want to save a video to a disk or not. Other problem is that I have mobile i...

Hi, It would be really useful if I could stream and play only the audio portion of a video clip without wasting ten times more traffic to listen to a song. Google's API is known to support this, at least on the mobile site. Does someone know more about this regarding VLC? Is it possible to set up VL...

It surprises me that nobody is concerned with fixing this. Watching YouTube in VLC spares a lot of electricity, CPU, memory and other computer resources. Users of older computers don't need to launch bloated browsers developed by lazy, ignorant developers, and they have the same experience. Please f...

I got the same problem under Windows (XP SP3) and Linux (Arch Linux, up-to-date) too with VLC 2.1.3. I tried the video that 99lool attached attached in his previous post , and gave me an error as well. Error message below. Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'http://r4---sn-2ap...