Play YouTube Videos Directly in VLC Media Player
There are plenty of tools for
converting YouTube videos, and VLC Media Player is one of them. With its latest
update, though, VLC can also simply play YouTube videos when you paste in a
YouTube URL.
It wasn't promoted heavily, if at
all, at the time of the 1.1 release, but there it is: hit File, choose
"Open Network Stream," and paste in the main YouTube URL for a video
(just the URL and first parameter, like youtube.com/watch?v=GQe3JxJHpxQ
). The process is demonstrated in this
YouTube clip.