Play Youtube Video on Mac, Windows PC, Linux Using VLC Player in few easy steps. The difference with Akamai or Rackspace Cloud Sites or even Amazon is speed. The principle again is the same like we used in our previous guide on how to Play Streaming Video or Play Music on VLC Player From Dropbox or other one on how to Play Rackspace Cloud Files Streaming Video on VLC Player. We pointed in some article before, Google unfortunately, uses quite bad quality CDN to deliver their Ads and other static items. This factor will be prominent after realization of this guide on How to Play Youtube Video on Mac, Windows PC, Linux Using VLC Player and when you will compare the speed with Dropbox or Rackspace Cloud Files. This is why enterprise grade users use special streaming media solution not Youtube.
What You Need To Know To Play Youtube Video on Mac, Windows PC, Linux Using VLC Player
The Metadata actually will be pulled on Mac, for Linux there might be minor issues. Basically, in both cases videos will run quite fine, only the name will not be apparent on your playlist.
You must know for this guide to Play Youtube Video, it is not absolutely like that – you can play all videos of YouTube. If the uploading human / publisher has locked the way to play, they will not play. For example, we do not lock our videos but many News channel does. You can not play a playlist, only the featured video by the publisher, etc.
However the advantages of using a real media player instead of web based player can not be ignored – you can use the equalizers for example. There are full movies legally available in some countries, served by Google on YouTube. Definitely this will bring a bit more fun and flexibility.
Play Youtube Video on Mac, Windows PC, Linux Using VLC Player
Our YouTube Chanel is here :
http://www.youtube.com/user/DrAbhishekGhosh
Its relatively new, you can follow any list of your interest or the full Chanel. Back to how to Play Youtube Video on Mac, Windows PC, Linux Using VLC Player; go to any YouTube video you want and copy the URL :
An excellent Blues, the URL is :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4IS0TDcYEs&feature=share&list=AL94UKMTqg-9CmXhoBXmI9rgDCAKi0Cfsw
To test this guide, copy this url and open VLC Player. Press Command + N (Mac) or CTRL + N to bring the Network Tools window and paste the url there, then hit Open (on Mac) or Play (on Windows) :
Definitely, another option exists - download any Youtube Video with Opera Browser. This Guide to Play Youtube Video is dedicated to Blues Music G+ community :
https://plus.google.com/communities/116567620611631553785
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