proudly compiled in VS2005, just call the app like this
ytdlp-silent-xp.exe -s "ytdlp.exe https://......"
it will start ytdlp (or whatever app you called with its parameters) hidden from your eyes
By default it requires yt-dlp.exe in the VLC directory but feel free to change its path in the script
Also uses a powershell command to hide the cmd window that appears meanwhile yt-dlp cooks the links,
also it uses if found yt-dlp-silent.exe that just a c++ wrapper that does kinda the same without using powershell
Simply open a network stream in VLC and let it rip
add &quality=xxx to the URL to select the video quality, omit to default to maximum quality possible