No matter what video I try to save, no matter how long it takes VLC to go through and compile (or whatever its doing) the video, none of that matters, I get the same broken output every time. Step 3 Next, head over to the Network tab and paste the copied YouTube link into the Network URL field. There you’ll find out an option, Open Network Stream, simply click on it. you don't have to go any website or install any software. But every time the output file is just this tiny broken MP4 file. Step 2 Open VLC media player on your computer and click on the Media option in the top bar. communication medium How to download YouTube video If you want to download a YouTube video. VLC does go through this whole long process of playing the video all slow and choppy (I assume its compiling it or something) and it seems like it's really going through the video and saving it. However when I convert/save the YT videos it just saves this 162 byte broken (and assumedly empty) MP4 file and not the actual video. After doing that my VLC does properly open youtube videos (which it did not before patching it), so I know I patched it properly. So I googled that and I did this whole thing that I found in other threads where I replaced the ac with a the one from the nightly on github copypasted into notepad and saved as a. So i downloaded VLC and it wouldn't even open youtube videos.

Vlc to download youtube