I'd have to use a separate browser to download videos as you suggest, as no more tabs can be tolerated. Playing the video in Edge and hitting Ctrl+J brings up edge://downloads/all.
If you meant "while the video is playing
in VLC"... I now find that
no YouTube live streams will play in 3.0.11, which I thought had solved the problem of play failure in 3.0.12. So I'm going to have to create a day with nothing in it, in order to clear head and work out how to attain a functional VLC, and I can't do that so I'll have to find an alternative.
I don't see a "block of text in the center" on GitHub, but there is a 633-line "doc" with preamble which I'm not sure should be included or not, I've had great trouble selecting text to copy and I can't see a way of uploading here what I've got as a text doc for you to check for me.
I appreciate your help, Hitchhiker, but I'm going to have to call it a day, it's been one thing after another