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		brown9-2 on May 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MIT and Harvard announce edX Are you saying you're able to watch the Udacity videos in VLC? How does that work?

dfc on May 3, 2012 [–]

It is quite easy. The braindead simple way is to give VLC the url for the video. But my preferred way is to use youtube-dl to download the videos and then open the video in VLC.

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