VLC Media Player VS youtube-dl-gui

VLC Media Player Reviews

1. Muhammad Yaseen

   4 months ago
   Playing Videos

   This is very useful application for me. Now i can watch videos of any format on my laptop with vlc player. It solved my all problems of video formats and play problem.

youtube-dl-gui Reviews

VLC Media Player mentions (3)

• The 10 tools I install on every new Mac I get

  VLC - plays everything, has excellent keyboard shortcuts and can in a pinch even record screens for you (free). - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Why Open Source Software VLC's official website has been blocked for over 5 months now?

  Try accessing it without the 'www' subdomain (https://videolan.org/vlc/). Source: almost 2 years ago

• AV1 no working

  I think I recommend you to use VLC Media Player without AV1 extension, it just decode. Source: over 2 years ago

youtube-dl-gui mentions (74)

• Nier automata anime soundtrack album

  YouTube-DLG (https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/) is by far my fave method after all this time. It's an open source desktop app so no need to deal w Bs ads or potential malware or any sort of other nonsense. Source: about 1 year ago

• How to prevent sites from disabling context menu items?

  It seems that you have found a site that uses Media Source Extensions to stream videos. Firefox is receiving the video in small pieces, making it impossible to download the entire video all at once using the context menu. Give youtube-dl-gui a try. It can download full videos from many sites, including Youtube. Source: about 1 year ago

• .mp3s downloading as .webms

  Hello, I have been using youtubedl for 3 years now. First, I used it via py, then I downloaded the command exe, but it stopped working, after which I switched to youtube-dl-gui, which it worked fine up until a month ago. Now I'm on yt-dlg, and it works but in a weird way. .mp4s are downloaded fine, but when I try to download an .mp3, it's usually done in a matter of seconds and the status at the end always says... Source: about 1 year ago

• Download YT playlists all at once without manual work?

  Https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/ Is what I've been using for the past year now. Source: about 1 year ago

• Newbie, sorry if questions are obvious, not that tech savvy! 1. Recommended jdownloader2 to rip BBC sounds - copied link & faced with hundreds of lines, how do I identify which is music file? 2. Fed up with vinyl only albums not having digital d/l, can anyone recommend to use site to find digi copy?

  For downloading from BBC Sounds - Youtube-DLG is what you want - https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/. Just paste the link in and it will download it. You can also use get_iplayer if you want to dabble in the command line stuff. Source: over 1 year ago