What is Reddit's opinion of youtube-dl?

Seconding this, youtube-dl is great.

Works on Windows, OSX, or Linux, is well supported, and takes up a miniscule amount of space by modern standards. Use it with ffmpeg to convert it to whatever audio/video format you need.

Can download from Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, websites I'm not allowed to mention here so I'll just link the list from their site.

EDIT: In case you're doubting how powerful this is, if you have the connection and the space for it, you can literally download entire Youtube channels with this thing. It's insanely useful.

I would never let YouTube just idly run for 10 hours, ads or not.
Just download the thing (youtube-dl) if you need it and then it's under your control and you won't even need the internet to watch it.

Copyright claims are great way to loose friends and influence people—if the red-baiting, personal-attack memes and neck bearding didn't work

Thanks for the heads up George.

For the future, all the videos from a channel can be downloaded with youtube-dl by passing the channel link as an argument:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFtsWUvuK28WwGAOTrYMpMK5__2q0MCDF

Mickey Mouse (BS) 1923-Forever

https://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse/videos (skip the preshow, it's just random youtube videos)

Reminder that youtube-dl can download videos from Twitch for easy offline viewing (although without the chat, YMMV if that's good or bad).

r/fdroid lets us share apps with people nearby.
Tails has tools for encryption.
youtube-dl
Wikipedia Database Download

You can use youtube-dl (works fine on Linux, but can be installed on Windows too). youtube-dl

Then use this command: youtube-dl -ciw ytuser: https://www.youtube.com/user/EthosLab -f bestvideo+bestaudio

That will download all 2113 Ethos videos (to the current working directory) in the best quality.

https://youtube-dl.org

This tool will safe you both time and anxiety. I don't know what the install process is like on windows (which I assume you're running. If you're on Linux you can just get it through your package manager), but once you have it you can just type

youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 <YouTube link>

into Powershell and you'll have the MP3 on your computer. I typed that command from memory, so it might be slightly off, but I don't think so. It saves tons of time, and you don't have to worry about viruses or ads or getting to the website.

My recommendation is to use YouTube-dl. Optimal quality possible as it just downloads the source and it goes straight from YouTube to your computer, no middle man. Open source free software.

You'll need ffmpeg and youtube-dl in the same directory.

"./youtube-dl.exe <URL> -x --hls-prefer-ffmpeg --audio-format mp3"

Assuming you're on Windows.

> could they possibly go for youtube-dl itself?

it's open-source, so that's all out there in the open, which is why they tried removing it from being hosted at github. mostly an attempt to make it harder to find/work on it, it was never gonna be a 100% removal.

they also sued their german webhost, according to the message at youtube-dl.org, heh:

> We would also like to heartily thank our main website hoster Uberspace who is currently being sued in Germany for hosting our essentially business card website and who have already spent thousands of Euros in their legal defense.

youtube-dl may not have gotten any updates lately, but yt-dlp have, and worth checking out for anyone worried about lack of updates or struggling with the age-gate issue currently in youtube-dl.

see also related thread in /r/datahoarder

This is a problem only for Europeans https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/jm37a1/youtube_will_start_to_demand_id_credit_cards/

A workaround is to download the video with youtube-dl.

You can still acquire it at https://youtube-dl.org, pypi and twitter. The only issue is now that there won't be a single consolidated location any edits to the source code can be centralised for future updates.

Wouldn't it be easy for the ytdl devs to challenge this? youtube-dl has a lot of legit uses like downloading your own stuff or all the available free to use media from almost any media hosting website. Looks like people already are full panicking turning it into images lol.

If anyone wants to download the utility it's still available through https://youtube-dl.org or pypi.

youtube-dl - open-source, multi-platform, easily automated

Make sure you have the most current version of youtube-dl.exe (assuming you're on a Windows-based system). Put it in a easy-to-remember location.

Open whatever terminal is available to you (likely the Windows command line): Hit WIN+R, type "cmd", hit enter.

Navigate to the folder containing youtube-dl.exe by using "cd <folder path>". cd is a command to change your active directory.

Doublecheck your current folders contents with the command "dir". It should display youtube-dl.exe

Execute the command "youtube-dl <youtube url>"

Magic ensues.

There are a zillion additional parameters you can use to modify youtube-dl's exact behavior to your liking.

This isn't a website, but if an application is acceptable... youtube-dl

It supports downloading from ~800 streaming sites currently including youtube, and has tons of options for quality being downloaded, reencoding, audio only, etc

https://youtube-dl.org/

Youtube-dl is free and open source. It's command-line based, but easy to use - just its name, a space, and then the URL of the video you want. There's more options if you want to download it as an MP3 or a particular video codec, but you don't have to use them.

Obviously only use it for your own videos on YouTube/Spotify/Vimeo/Reddit etc; not for this one.

Or use youtube-dl. You can take down a site that isn't a site to begin with. It's been around for years, and I've never had it not work, as long as I'm using the latest version available.

I've started the process of downloading past streams from some of the curated streams in the stickied comment

I would suggest others doing the same! Check out youtube-dl. Good for preservation and posterity and don't forget to include metadata in the downloaded streams

<code>youtube-dl</code> supports a very large amount of sites.

This is probably the closest you can get though, "any site" just wouldn't be possible. There are way too many variables that come into play.

the youtube-dl.exe got updated, there's an instruction on how to update it in some dance world. IDK if it's that.

I mindlessly followed it and videos for that room started playing https://youtube-dl.org/

Youtube-dl you can get it on Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOS, *BSD and where ever python runs.

It's open source so it's not shady or sketchy you can analyze the code yourself. You can get it from github or their website.

youtube-dl. If you're scared of the command line you can find guis online (but it's not hard to use). Also supports many other sites, you can find the full list (as of version 2021.02.22) here

Hi Alfagun74. You can put together two existing solutions: youtube-dl and plex.

youtube-dl can download entire channels and playlists, skipping the videos that have already been downloaded. If you use linux, you can schedule daily jobs in cron to update the channels and playlists.

Plex is a media server. Make one library per channel/playlist, and you will have your videos organized and ready to be streamed.

A good start to install Plex (and many, many, many other services) is HomelabOS.

This isn't precisely that but is a tutorial for youtube-dl

Download youtube-dl.
Shift+right click in the folder you've downloaded it to and open a command prompt/powershell.
Type youtube-dl the url you want to download
Enjoy your video files.

Also worth noting if you want to choose your video quality you can do

youtube-dl -F url followed by

youtube-dl -f 123+456 url

You can use youtube-dl tool (website) to download all the videos in the channel, but it won't grab comments. I recommend using options to save EVERYTHING (e.g. the description, metadata, sub files, etc.). You'll probably want a set the --output option to group the files by video. This post talks about a tool to download comments, but I haven't used it.

This wiki has information about uploading youtube videos to the Internet Archive: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube#.28Automatic.29_tubeup.py_-_Youtube_Video_IA_Archiver However, there's a note about not uploading blatantly copyrighted content, which this channel may contain.

Most decent video downloader extensions will require some "app" to download from streaming sites, since webextensions are limited in capability. These apps would have ffmpeg and youtube-dl embedded in them to merge the fragments of the stream that the webextension counterpart would send them.

With that said, Video downloadhelper went freemium now, and you'd need to pay for some of the DASH video downloads (streaming), so you might want to try something like Ant Video Downloader, which recognizes same as many as video download helper as well as streaming sites. It also requires an app (like most decent video downloader extensions as already stated), but it appears on the installed applications menu (on windows at least), so it should be easy to uninstall if you don't like it later.

If you still don't want to install that, you can just use youtube-dl (it downloads from many sites, not just youtube) and ffmpeg to merge the audio and video yourself (they are CLI programs, so they don't have a visual interface, all is done through the terminal, so you will have to learn a bit about how they work to use them), but those are external programs.

>Lite spørsmål: Korleis kastar du ned ein film frå NRK?

Gitt at du bor i andre etasje eller høyere, åpner du soverromsvinduet og skyver datamaskinen din fint og pyntlig ut av vinduet.

Seriøst svar: Last ned youtube-dl. Hvis du er på en windows maskin går du til stien du lastet ned exe filen (youtube-dl.exe) i kommandovinduet. Skriver:

youtube-dl.exe https://tv.nrk.no/program/KOIF45004111

(i tilfelle du vil laste ned kongens nei, hvis du vil laste ned noe annet erstatter du bare URL'en med URL'en til det programmet befinner seg på)

The source code was briefly taken off github but the project wasn't really "shut down".

https://youtube-dl.org

It is literally as easy as running youtube-dl https://www.hornpub.com/view_video?whatever on the command line. I believe there are GUIs for it as well

For future reference, youtube-dl supports downloading Twitter videos, along with many more site. Since it's open-source and you run it locally, it's completely safe and you don't have to deal with sketchy random ad-ridden sites.

I don't think it's likely that the internet would go down. There is redundancy built in. If, say, a router goes down, others would just pick up the slack and the data would follow a different path.

There very well could be temporary, localized 'glitches'. And, high solar activity can cause apparent slowness.

YT videos can be downloaded with youtube-dl : https://youtube-dl.org/

And, web pages can be saved by using your browser's File -> Save as menu option.

Did a quick test download and https://youtube-dl.org/ appears to work just fine with regular vimeo videos (and is really always the first option you should try). I don't see why it wouldn't work with private ones. Do you have an example link?

I use youtube-dl for this: https://youtube-dl.org/

Can download a specific video/channel/playlist. Skips dupes by default. I have a script that runs periodically that downloads videos on my "favourites" list.

Either use one of the many website or use the command line tool called youtube-dl. That is the one I use. https://youtube-dl.org/

The -x parameter is for only downloading the audio file.

War mal gut, ist nur noch Schrott.

Für OCH mag es sich lohnen das Mammuth zu installieren (aber passt auf das ihr nicht ausversehen die mitgelieferte Adware installiert, wirklich shady)

Für YouTube und viele andere VOD Plattformen reicht youtube-dl https://youtube-dl.org/

Hier auch mit Klickybunti Oberfläche für Windows User: https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui

You can download multiple URLs with one call, i.e.

youtube-dl url1 url2 url3 url4

and giving the url to a Youtube channel or playlist will automatically download all videos in the channel/playlist.

Most of the time you will also want -c and -w options, which will attempt to continue aborted downloads (-c) and prevent overwrite of exiting files (-w).

For Windows users, first, there is a distribution available as a single .exe file at https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl.exe (no need to install, just run it), and second, running the program with -u option will automatically download a new version and replace the exe file (useful as websites change the way they work, and the software needs to adapt).

Resolution has nothing to do with it. Every single video on Youtube gets a VP9 version, even the ones with 0 views.

You can check for yourself by downloading youtube-dl, doing any Youtube search and sorting by new, and using youtube-dl -F youtube_URL_here to list the available formats. You'll see that every single video, whether it's 480p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K, uses VP9.

The reason why some people might be confused about this is that H.264 is only available for up to 1080p. So any resolution above that by necessity uses VP9 (or AV1 nowadays, if the video has enough views). And since VP9 hardware decoding isn't universally available, the only time their laptop fan spins up is when they're watching in 1440p or higher, and they confuse that for "VP9 is only used for higher than 1080p". When in reality H.264 is more rare on Youtube than VP9 is.

You might like to take a look at https://youtube-dl.org/ It also works with many other sites besides youtube, contrary to its name.

I personally use it download the latest videos from youtube channel feeds, before i get home, so that bandwidth isnt used while i want to use it for streaming/gaming or something else.

Works beautifully.

Do you have reddit is fun? I have the option to save as MP4 by holding the screen down. Alternately, if you have a computer you can get youtube dl https://youtube-dl.org/ then transfer the song to the ipod. If you need to convert the MP4 to an MP3 use VLC player. Open it up and go to Media > convert/save, then choose the option for mp3.

Ignore all the other youtube downloaders, they're scammy trash. This is the only legit one that allows access to the source code.

And of course, please support Starset by buying the track when it does come out.

Anyway I recommended using youtube-dl next time it's a terminal application but don't let that scarce you it's as easy as youtube-dl $YOUTUBELINKHERE

Website: https://youtube-dl.org Source code: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl Crappy video I found on how to use it: https://youtu.be/7wfUUZvybPY

I'm pretty sure there are some people who had the foresight to archive it since it was one of those videos that may potentially be taken down. For anyone interested to do so in future, use youtube-dl, an open source tool. Don't go using those "free" video downloaders that come with adware

You can still download the binaries at https://youtube-dl.org/ The only thing that was taken down was the source code repository at github. I'm sure it will live on as there are many copies of source code and the devs will eventually find a new source control host.

As u/AFurBall has said, youtube-dl works well too (also on Linux). Another Tool I like to use is the YoutubeDownloader for Windows, which like youtube-dl comes without any advertising or shady stuff.

I use youtube-dl. Its a free and open source command line downloader.

And while its command line, its basic use is quite simple:

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxx"

My suggestion is to install youtube-dl through Homebrew. Despite it's name it works for a lot of different sites. You'll have to use the terminal, but it's as easy as typing "youtube-dl" followed by a space, paste the address to the page where the video is located and press enter.

Not sure what your tolerance is for technical tinkering but youtube-dl is the best I've used and also support a lot of other sites as well as youtube.

By default it will automatically download the highest quality it can find.

youtube-dl <youtube url>

It has a huge amount of options that you can learn as you go too.

Take a look at https://youtube-dl.org/. That's a program that will download just about any embedded video. You could also try asking /r/datahoarder or /r/archiveteam for help backing up your sisters old content.

The official website is: https://youtube-dl.org/

The official development repository is: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

You aren't linking any URLs so I have no way to determine the legitimacy of whichever websites you are referring to.

Currently, official downloads directly linked from the official website are being served via: https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/

"youtube-dl" is the official project name. There are other projects that are named "yt-dl" that are both forks of the main project as well as other tools that can be used with youtube-dl, such as a GUI as far as I am aware. None of them are official or directly associated with youtube-dl as far as I am aware. Always check with the primary website and dev repository.

Pois é.

Como seu nome é em hex, suponho que seja desenvolvedor. Tu pode baixar vídeos do reddit usando o youtube-dl (apt install youtube-dl ou https://youtube-dl.org/). É só colocar o link do v.redd.it que ele dá merge no arquivo de áudio e o de vídeo, resultando num mp4.

Por exemplo, pra baixar esse vídeo: youtube-dl https://v.redd.it/uokaxukf62z11

it's a command line program (terminal application) that once installed lets you supply the youtube link and gets you the mp4 or mp3 version... https://youtube-dl.org/ that's their site

YouTube. That's almost certainly the problem. How are you downloading them? I'd guess through a website. Those can often prove to be problematic, because they often create malformed video files - they may well be okay for playing, but editing requires a lot more from a file. Although you're using AVC in an MP4 (generally the best format for Vegas), I'd be worried about malformed files. For instance, they often use a variable framerate, which Vegas (and other video editors) does not like - or they don't encode headers properly, meaning they clash with the actual data.

There's a very good tool for downloading from YouTube (called youtube-dl), but it is a command line tool that involves opening a command prompt and controlling it through typed commands. It is terrifically flexible (you can convert, extract audio, resize, etc) and works with far more sites than just YouTube. It's free and makes proper files that will work properly in video editors.

If you'd prefer something more visual, there is a very simple GUI version (called youtube-dl-gui, funnily enough). That just involves pasting links to videos in and setting them going. It's not quite as flexible as the command line version, but it works just as well. You can still download from multiple sites and ever download multiple files at a time.

Pretty much all of those shitty converters use youtube-dl under the hood to do their job, their site is here. It's legit so useful, you can even use it to download album playlists and auto-name the songs how you want

Get the youtube-dl exe save it to C:\

Go to C:\

Hold down shift and right click, select open command window here

Type in youtube-dl and then past the reddit URL behind it

It will now download and you will soon have the video as a file on C:\

This works for almost any website in the world and you can also use it to download audio with or extract the audio from a video file (you will have to get FFmpeg and make the exe path)

Sometimes websites make changes and you will have to update youtube-dl, it can update itself if you run it with the -U behind it.

It can do all kinds of cool stuff. I can auto download a youtube playlist and save everything as mp3 files, you have control over how you want the filenames to be saved. There is even a way to download every single video from an entire youtube channel in one go.

For more info and a overview of all the commands --> https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

There are dozens of GUI's and chrome plugins that can make this whole process a little more user friendly just google youtube-DL GUI or youtube-dl browser plugin ....

Youtube-dl is probably the most popular and we'll known. It's a command line tool, but there's numerous front ends for it. Most downloader apps and browser extensions use it for the backend. https://youtube-dl.org/

You (and everyone else in this thread) should figure out how to use the terminal/console on your computer, and then how to use youtube-dl.

The service you're paying for most likely uses youtube-dl itself in the background.

I use youtube-dl to download whatever I want - it's a leeeetle bit slow, but really not a problem. It's a command-line tool so takes some getting used to if you're not familiar with that, but it's not complicated (I can give you some pointers via pm if you like) - check it out: https://youtube-dl.org/ Best feature is you can pass it a text file of video URLs and it will download all of them in the background

+1 for youtube-dl. If this is something you need in order to sleep, don't put your mental health in the hands of YouTube. You never know when the video is just randomly taken down, or your internet goes out or whatever. Just download a copy and watch it on your own terms (ad-free too of course).

better get a copy of youtube dl and download it so you can show your kids one day

YouTube dl

Commercial

What you can probably do is use youtube-dl to download his entire playlist in MP3 format so you can just listen to it on the go.

If you do download it, be sure to upload those MP3's to archive.org or something and share it here so others can get it too.

youtube-dl lädt dir alle videos herunter und kann dir das auch auf mp3 umwandeln. "Leider" geht das über Kommandozeile, aber das ist nicht kompliziert und Anleitung und download findest du auf https://youtube-dl.org/

Ansonsten lädt wget auch recht viel zeug herunter.

Use youtube-dl. It's free, open-source, and is actually installed on your computer. I've been using it for years, it's amazing. All it requires is a few simple command line commands to work. Here's pretty much all you'll need:

youtube-dl [URL of video] downloads a video

youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 320 [URL of video] (used if you want to just download the audio of a video)

I recommend youtube-dl for a user who knows a little bit about CLI you can customize anything to your liking. Such as Codec, metadata, and thumbnail+subtitle automatically embed to the video file.

Edit: No luck. I'll link the comment where it should be visible.

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As it happens I made an archive of his videos a couple weeks back for someone else. I'll post it separately as I tried last night and it seems to have been filtered. I can see it, but not in private mode. I now realise this is why my first attempt for the other thread wasn't seen.

The archive represents his channel basically as it was as of the last upload. Check the video "Kicking 43alley off YouTube" at 2:43 for a snapshot of the channel at about that time. Sorting by Date Modified will be fairly close to upload order.

With the waves of false-flaggings and false-DMCAs against atheist/skeptic videos back in the day, I made backups of many of the Youtubers I follow. I've recently consolidated and made attempts at better organising my backups.

Some of the videos are of lower quality than they could be, as I didn't always download the best quality versions. It's been so long since YT broke the first mass-download method I used that I forget what settings I used. Since then I've found Youtube-DL, which works quite well. It is command-line based though. There's an unofficial GUI, but it doesn't look to support most of the arguments, so I've never tried it.

Lately there's been some errors when downloading from YT. If you get 403 errors, try running it with the argument --rm-cache-dir. That should sort it out for a while. I've had to do it two or three times in the last two weeks. They did just update the program in the last couple days, so maybe it's been fixed now.

It's a program that you can install as package. Downloads videos from YouTube, Twitter and many other sites, can automatically download whole playlists, only extract audio and stuff like that.

https://youtube-dl.org/

You should be using youtube-dl the command line program: https://youtube-dl.org It's extremely powerful and, despite its name, works on a multitude of websites. If you want, I can help you to get it working.

Edit: I just realized you might be asking for a youtube downloader that is for mobile. If so, I'll try to get youtube-dl working in Termux and I'll report back with instructions!

<code>youtube-dl</code> is the answer.

In the most basic invocation, you can just run youtube-dl <url> and it will do the right thing.

I use some options to choose my output formats: youtube-dl <URL> -F to see a list of available options, youtube-dl <URL> -f 22 to select my favorite, and youtube-dl --merge-output-format mp4 <URL> so that mixed-format output muxes into MP4 for playback on some of our media devices through DLNA.

Unfortunately not. I just checked out an "8D audio" video on YouTube and essentially what was done is they put the song through a binaural audio simulation and moved the virtual position around you as the song goes on. Since it's just an audio effect on top of the original song, I don't believe you could legally upload that sort of thing to Spotify as you don't own it.

There are ways to download the videos and sync them to Spotify if you'd like to take the time.

Hope this is helpful.

There is a free program called youtube-dl that you can download to do that. It is a command line program so might be a bit fiddly if you are not used to it. I think there are some graphical interfaces for it that can make it easier to use.

The gold standard is a tool called youtube-dl. Yes the name is a little misleading, but it basically can download almost any streaming video nowadays. It's free, open source, ad-free, and pretty much every "save video" website uses it on the backend.

https://youtube-dl.org/

It is a command-line tool as well, so you need to open a command prompt / PowerShell / terminal and have some basic understanding of how those work. There may be graphical interfaces available, but honestly it's so simple I don't think anyone actually needs one. Just youtube-dl.exe <video_link> in most cases.

Let me know if you need help and I'll be happy to give more info.

I just thought of maybe another way to get Takeasy working again.

Download the latest youtube-dl file from https://youtube-dl.org/
Using WinSCP go to /volume1/.@plugins/AppCentral/takeasy/util/ on the Asustor.
Backup the existing youtube-dl.
Copy the new youtube-dl to /volume1/.@plugins/AppCentral/takeasy/util/

PS I just noticed your issue is with subscribing to YouTube channels. The latest version of Takeasy only has Twitch available in the subscription section.

> So where would I find the scripts or Norsk subtitles for each episode?

As for the subtitles: I remember downloading them for another NRK show, Blank, with youtube-dl about two years ago. You’ll receive them as a .vtt file but they can be easily converted to .srt and read by any text editor.

As for the scripts: This goes beyond my knowledge but I know some people on a Discord server which will be able to help you with that. I’ll send you an invitation in about 12 hours.

I've never even heard of this program, or have heard it suggested for downloading you-tube videos. The most suggested is the command-line version (More meant for geeks) is youtube-dl.

Here is a GUI-friendly one that uses yt-dl's engine. https://stacher.io/

I can't say for sure that it's the ripped video that's the root cause of this, but it is by far the most likely. And that goodness you're not using ReelSmart Motion Blur - I don't know why people love using it so much, because it eats system resources and slows everything to a crawl.

Generally I recommend not ripping videos - there aren't any professional tools for doing so. However, there is youtube-dl which does an excellent job. It uses FFmpeg for its video handling - which is a set of programming libraries for handling video on a variety of operating systems and is used by a number of video programs. But I suspect you won't like the command line interface of youtube-dl, so I'd instead direct you to youtube-dlg, which is the same thing with a user interface on it. It lacks access to a lot of the more advanced features of the command line version, but I suspect it's more than enough for your purposes. It'll also download from a heck of a lot more places than just YouTube.

Note that YouTube only serves higher def content these days via AV1 codec, which the Q1/Q2 doesn't have accelerated support for in the way that x265/x264 are supported at up to 8k.

So you can download the content from YouTube via youtube-dl and then recompress to x265, and then use dlna to stream to your Quest 2. But the Youtube App, or going via browser often won't even have 4k videos served via x265. And 4k is pretty crappy.

Youtube-dl ist eine ganz gute Anwendung, ist allerdings nur über Kommandozeile.

https://youtube-dl.org/

Im Endeffekt downloadest du für Windows die youtube-dl.exe runter, musst dann über Kommandozeile in das Verzeichnis der exe-Datei navigieren und kannst dann über "yt-download.exe <Link>" das Video runterladen. Die meisten Websiten greifen im Grunde auf dieses Programm zurück.

Use this, paste the link, and on the next page, right side, under "More Video..." is a link for the 1920x1080p MP4 version. You can also use youtube-dl, but that's mostly for linux users.

youtube-dl is pretty handy. gotta set it up but it's pretty easy. you can also use it to download video/audio from a ton of other sites if the need arises.

https://youtube-dl.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOhGkZ4U4lI

you can set up a youtube-dl ffmpeg converter, but you can also convert the m4a to wav or mp3 inside Audacity.

Install youtube-dl From https://youtube-dl.org/
Open a terminal or command prompt.
Type youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A
Press enter

Clips sourced from YouTube. That's what's ringing alarm bells for me. And how were they sourced from YouTube? Through some online site that rips video?

When I asked how much RAM, I meant how much RAM your computer has. However, I suspect you've watched a video that tells you to mess with the RAM Preview value. That really isn't too helpful. It's often portrayed as a magical setting that can fix failed renders, speed up everything, make effects smoother and quicker. In reality it's just the amount of RAM that Vegas keeps spare for previewing your clips during editing. That's all it does!

Okay, so if you're ripping videos from YouTube, the number one thing you can do is use a proper tool to do so. One of the problems with ripping stuff from there is that YouTube makes regular changes to the way things are coded in order to break these sites and tools. Most of the online rippers don't do a very good job and they often produce malformed videos that break very easily. The same with most of the YouTube ripper programs. It's a hassle keeping up with all the YouTube changes, so most of them are not programmed well enough or updated often enough to be reliable means of ripping. The ones that are, tend to be the ones that get sued by YouTube.

The best tool for ripping YouTube video is youtube-dl. Because it's a command line tool, that tends to put most people off. There is a GUI version of it too though (and it does a lot more than just YouTube). I would suggest you try grabbing a couple of videos using this tool and see if that just makes all the difference.

Found on youtube from there you can download it with a variety of tools, i'd recommend youtube-dl

You could just directly download the audio using youtube-dl. For example

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=0xkb02GoHJ4

will extract the audio of the posted video and save it as an mp3 file. PM me if you want me to do it for you :)

Have you downloaded the videos in maximum resolution? Next time you can use yt-dlp or such to download the entire channel:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/
https://youtube-dl.org/
And use LosslessCut for cutting time sections when potentially identifiable things are visible:
https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/

Also I wonder if /r/TraceAnObject/ could help identifying things.

Download the video using RedditSave. If that site doesn't work, you can use Youtube-DL instead (desktop CMD/Terminal tool to download videos from a lot of websites, including Reddit)