How to Download Youtube videos or any online videos using VLC

First get the URL of the YouTube video page.

Now click on
—->Media
—->Open Network stream.
Paste the URL and click Play.


Once VLC starts streaming the video,
click
->Tools
Codec Information
and at the bottom of the window you will see a Location box.

Copy the URL and paste it on your browser’s address bar.
The browser will now download the file which you can save it to your hard disk.