Play any YouTube Playlist with VLC Media Player

The Benefits of Watching YouTube Videos with VLC

The streaming videos will play inside VLC Media Player just like any other local video file while offering some additional benefits not available inside the standard YouTube player. For instance:

1. You can choose Video -> Always on Top inside VLC and the YouTube video window will stick to the foreground while you work on other tasks.
2. Press the Loop button in the player controls and the YouTube video will play non-stop in a loop (also possible with Chrome add-ons).
3. You can change the Playback speed of the YouTube video and make it run slower or faster than the normal speed.
4. Use the Tools -> Take Snapshot option to capture a screenshot image of any frame or scene in the YouTube video.
5. Watch the YouTube videos without the ads. I played a couple of movies and music videos inside VLC and none of them carried any pre-roll ads.

Play YouTube Playlists inside VLC

Right-click and save this file to your desktop. Now open the VLC installation folder. Just copy and paste the dir below into a Run (Win+r) or if your running windows 7 right into the start search.

32 bit

%ProgramFiles%VideoLANVLCluaplaylist

64 bit

%programfiles(x86)%VideoLANVLCluaplaylist

Put the .lua file you downloaded into the playlist folder.

Restart the VLC Media Player and choose Media -> Open Network Stream. Now paste the URL of any public YouTube Playlist here and the enjoy the videos.

Enjoy.

Credit: Labnol