Press Ctrl-j to open the Current Media Information dialog and choose the Codec tab.ħ. When the vid starts to play (if it does–some YT vids seem to be protected and will not stream/play), pause it with VLC’s Pause button.Ħ. At lower right, click the Stream drop-down arrow and choose *Play*.ĥ. Click the Network tab, paste the URL into the network URL entryfield provided.Ĥ. Load VLC, use Ctrl-s to get the Open Media dialog box.ģ. Copy to the Win clipboard the video URL from YT.Ģ. It seems long and complex, but once you’ve done it a time or two it’s easy.

I have divided the steps into two procedures. Video TutorialĬapture audio directly from YouTube (YT) vid using VLC and without first downloading the video. These are advanced audio formats and just MP3 would be enough for the most of us. There are also several audio codecs like MPEG Audio, MPEG 4 Audio (AAC), A52/AC-3, Vorbis, Flac, Opus, Speex and WMA2. You can also select WAV as the encapsulation in the conversion profile editor. The profiles that come by default are Vorbig (OGG), FLAC and CD. You must have noticed other formats in the convert dialog. The conversion from video to audio is not just limited to MP3 format. The size will be low and the MP3 file can be easily copied to your smartphone, music player or any other mobile audio playing device. Once the slider reaches the end, you can browse to and locate the destination audio file. You will notice the audio extraction process happen as it is indicated by the player’s progress slider. The conversion process will begin immediately. Hit Browse and give a destination file name with the extension ending in.Under Settings, in Profile choose Audio – MP3.To just keep the audio (music) of video files using VLC Media Player: You’d be reducing the file size drastically. This is a great feature if you want to just keep the music from the music videos. That means you can remove all those moving images and just save it as an MP3 or any other audio format like WAV, FLAC or OGG. The convert feature that comes with the free player allows you to remove the video part and just keep the audio or the music. You don’t have to download any additional software to do it if your computer already has VLC Media Player installed. It’s simple to extract music from videos. Sometimes, you want to convert your video and just keep the audio and save it as an MP3.

Convert youtube video to mp3 on windows