How to watch playlists from YouTube without a browser
Web Services / / December 24, 2019
We have become accustomed to the fact that the most popular video hosting YouTube - is primarily an online service, access to which can be accessed using a browser. However, sometimes it is easier to watch videos, concerts, movies with this service is not in the browser, and in the normal media player. This gives us the opportunity to VLC program, as we told you in this article. And today you will learn that in the same way you can not only watch individual videos, but also the whole playlist.
If you just copy a link to the playlist and try to open it in the VLC, then, in the best case, you will only see the first movie. In order to teach the player to play the entire playlist, you will need to install a small extension.
- download from this page expansion YouTube Playlist parser. Clicking the download button, save in any location with an extension file .lua.
- Open the file manager and drag the saved file to the following address:
- Windows (all users):% ProgramFiles% \ VideoLAN \ VLC \ lua \ playlist \
- Windows (current user):% APPDATA% \ vlc \ lua \ playlist \
- Linux (all users): / usr / lib / vlc / lua / playlist /
- Linux (current user): ~ / .local / share / vlc / lua / playlist /
- Mac OS X (all users): /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/playlist/
(If the corresponding directory is not present, create it to the specified address)
- Find a YouTube playlist you are interested in. Make it very simple, use the advanced search of service.
- Copy the link to the desired playlist. The VLC program, click open URL and paste this link.
- Starts playback of the first clip, then automatically the next and so on down the list.
This way of viewing the video can be much more convenient than normal playback using the browser. You can position the player window on top of other windows and even close the browser, if you do not need. Additionally, you get at the disposal of such VLC features like the ability to overlay a variety of audio and video effects, saving videos to your hard drive, use subtitles and more more.