Thank you! But can you please go into details. For example, I have a youtube link on my clipboard and I tried VLC > Media > Open Location from Clipboard > and I see a new '(null)' entry in my VLC playlist. I am stuck here.

Wasn't aware this was possible. Finally, I am no longer dependent on 3rd party tools for dl'ing yt vids.

This is mind blowing. Thanks a lot for sharing it. HN never seem to disappoint.

Suprised these don't get blocked when viewed in a browser normally.

Not quite that simple.

I brought up YouTube, clicked on sample video, dragged it into VLC where it displayed.

There is no "video info" in latest VLC download, there is >tools>media info, which at the very bottom yields location:

I copied pasted that URL in location: (https://r2---sn-bg5oqxjvh-xa2e.googlevideo.com . . . . . ) into Firefox and it would not resolve.