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You can also take the hyperlong temporary video URL and convert that one, if that's what you mean. But that is time-limited.

Yes, I probably meant it, the big URL that leads to a raw video file.

The conversion wizard cannot handle playlists, and youtube.lua presents YouTube videos as single item playlists. AFAIK, you have to use the VLC CLI (or another dedicated CLI tool such as YT-DLP). That's a letdown. But thank you anyway! You must already know this, but there's also another way, when ...

Sup! After trying to convert a youtube video to mp3 (don't want to use those sites with ad banners all over the place), the first problem I faced was that it failed to play some googleusercontent (or something like that) MRL. So I went to Google to troubleshoot and a video adviced to change youtube....