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Not sure how long this method will continue working but as of 12/14/2018 it works for me. I only tested with a few videos so it may not work with everything. - A - : 1 - Take the url of the video you want to play https://vimeo.com/xxxxxxxx 2 - Change it to https://player.vimeo.com/video/xxxxxxxx this will be the URL of the player itself. - B - : 1 - Inside the source of that page will be a line: var config = {...} 2 - Within the Curly Braces is JSON Data that contains the actual video URLs for the various qualitys. Look for urls ending with .mp4 and the qualites associated with them. Example within the json data from https://player.vimeo.com/video/304859830 , you can see the entry for 720p with the url associated with it: {"profile":174,"width":1280,"mime":"video/mp4","fps":23,"url":"https://fpdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/971/12/304859830/1168737254.mp4?token=1544825612-0xf1df440adf1d6f0309e948ed0a31ee471f28c5d4","cdn":"fastly","quality":"720p","id":1168737254,"origin":"gcs","height":720} And you can just take that url and paste it straight into the stream section of VLC

VLC media player 0.8.6b * It is a free cross-platform media player * It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs * It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)

Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!