These days I was transferring one of by band’s channel, and I needed to download a 1h34min long video. No web downloader worked properly.
While searching for an actual software, I found this Reddit post referring to a Python command line tool named yt-dlp. Basic usage is pretty straightforward:
yt-dlp.exe URL
My first try downloaded two files: MP4 and WEBM. The MP4 had no sound, and the WEBM was unplayable. My recently downloaded Vegas 22 didn’t seem to recognize this files. A warning message appeared, though:
WARNING: You have requested merging of multiple formats but ffmpeg is not installed. The formats won't be merged
The repository README had an specific section labelled FFmpeg Static Auto-Builds, with a download link to Windows x64 binaries. The zip contains, among others, a bin directory with three executables. I extracted them in the same folder of the original executable – yt-dlp.exe –, and this time the download completed smoothly, with a single file with video and audio properly merged.
Excellent tool.