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.