How to Watch an Entire YouTube Playlist in VLC

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Ever wanted to watch that entire playlist consisting of appealing videos outside of your browser? If you wanted to play a single video , all you needed to do was to click "Media" , click "Open Network Stream" , enter video URL and hit "Play". But if you paste in a playlist URL, all the player will do is play the first video. Here comes to rescue the Playlist Parser add on for VLC.

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    Download the YouTube Playlist Parser add-on for VLC .
    • Once you hit the "Download" button, you will be redirected to a text file. Simply right click and click on "Save As".
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    Now move that saved file to a proper folder depending on your OS : [2]
    • Windows : %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\
    • Linux : /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/
    • Mac OS X : /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/playlist/
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    • Paste the URL in the "Open Network Window". [4]
    • The first video will start playing and all the others will queue up.
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      References

      1. ↑ https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=156428
      2. ↑ https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154080
      3. ↑ https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57793?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
      4. ↑ https://www.labnol.org/software/youtube-videos-in-vlc-player/26829/

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