YouTube to VLC

[dansherman]

Keyword: y2v

 

This basic workflow sends the URL of the open tab of the topmost window of Chrome or Safari to VLC. 

It doesn't do any checking to see if it actually a YouTube link, or adjust the desired resolution.

It does try to resize the window to the bottom right corner of the screen, but sometimes the video will resize after loading on its own.

 

http://is.gd/8kE3an

 

Edit: Hosted download from my dropbox.

Edited April 1, 2013 by dansherman

[Domenic]

Could you re-up this workflow, please?

Sounds interesting!

[mralexhay]

Could you re-up this workflow, please?

Sounds interesting!

 

+1

[jloveblaze]

+1

 

 

Keyword: y2v

 

This basic workflow sends the URL of the open tab of the topmost window of Chrome or Safari to VLC. 

It doesn't do any checking to see if it actually a YouTube link, or adjust the desired resolution.

It does try to resize the window to the bottom right corner of the screen, but sometimes the video will resize after loading on its own.

 

http://d.pr/f/cyLV

Reup pls

[dansherman]

I updated the link in the original post, it shouldn't expire now.

[npeeps]

This sounds really awesome! I keep getting error messages when trying this, however. It seems the problem is an "always https" extension I'm using in Chrome. If I paste the URL of the youtube video with https into vlc it gives me the same error message, yet when I remove the s the stream runs well.

 

Is there any way that this could be accommodated?

 

Thanks

[dansherman]

This sounds really awesome! I keep getting error messages when trying this, however. It seems the problem is an "always https" extension I'm using in Chrome. If I paste the URL of the youtube video with https into vlc it gives me the same error message, yet when I remove the s the stream runs well.

 

Is there any way that this could be accommodated?

 

Thanks

All set. I added a line to replace 'https' with 'http'. The link in the first post has the updated version.

[npeeps]

All set. I added a line to replace 'https' with 'http'. The link in the first post has the updated version.

 

Awesome! Thank you so much!

[Domenic]

Thank you!

VLC needs to be closed for this workflow to work, doesn´t it?

Could you somehow change it, so that VLC remembers the last window size instead of opening almost fullscreen?

And do you know a simple way to change the workflow to MPlayerX?