VLC Media Player is one of the best programs to watch videos on Windows, Mac, Linux computers and also on Android smartphones and tablets . Its popularity is due to the fact that this software application is capable of playing any type of video or film, of any format, be it in high or low quality, from DVD, from Divx and so on.
With VLC it is also possible to open and play any video found on the internet without any need to keep the browser and the Flash player open.
To watch YouTube videos in VLC Media Player on your computer just go to the Media menu -> Open network stream and paste the link or URL of the Youtube video and click Play .
That's all there is to it and it's a fairly commonplace trick known by everyone.
To open the videos of other Flash-based streaming websites, however, the question is different because the link taken from the address bar, the URL, may not work on a program such as VLC Player.
In this case, the video link must be extracted from the page code.
For example you can take a video on Vimeo which can have URLs like this: //vimeo.com/62409118, paste the link in the playback of network stream in VLC and find that it doesn't work.
This is because the video file is hidden in the page code.
The solution, on Windows and Mac PCs, is the use of the Maxthon web browser which really provides the easiest way to extract the real link of the streaming videos to be able to save or play them with programs outside the browser such as VLC on Windows and Mac PCs .
Open the Vimeo video on Maxthon, start the video by pressing Play and notice the appearance of the Pop-up button at the top.
Click on Pop-up and, in the new window, click on the Menu to find the " Download video " option.
Without clicking, move the mouse to Download and then, instead of pressing Save, click Copy URL .
Then go to VLC, open the network stream and paste the link copied from Maxthon to start playback.
Of course, it is also possible to use another program than VLC and, in another article, the best media players for PC are listed
VLC is an application that also plays streaming videos on Android devices, tablets and smartphones from Samsung, LG, HTC, NExus, etc.
You can download VLC for Android for free from Google Play.
In this case, for all websites that may not work because the Flash plugin is missing, there is a resolving application.
Download and install for free on Android And Stream .
Then open a web page with a video, press and hold on the address bar, copy the link .
Then open Hubi and, in the top bar, hold down and paste the link and press Play .
When asked which application to open the video with, choose VLC.
This procedure also works by using other applications to watch videos on Android.
If you use Google Chrome on Android, you can simply open the video page, go to the options, then to Share and select Hubi to immediately have the link pasted in the app and be able to open the video in VLC as if it were any file.
Alternatively, you can also use Veezie, an application that allows you to play streaming videos indicating the URL of the site where they are located.
If these methods do not work, it means that the videos are protected and any possibility of being able to see them outside the sites where they are is excluded .
