You can download YouTube videos with a tool like youtube-dl-gui or yt-dlp (command line only). Most YouTube videos are already in webm, and can be directly uploaded to Commons. If you need to convert a video to webm, I can't recommend Handbrake enough. -FASTILY22:21, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@PJ Geest: Can you describe the specific problems with Video2commons that you want to see fixed? Are they listed on its issue tracker? Is it uploading from YouTube that's the most important issue? Please add some more information to the problem statement above. Thanks! SWilson (WMF) (talk) 06:23, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Offroader is a tool that will transcode files (for example MOV from iOS and MP4 from Android) to webm and upload files of up to 4GiB. Videos of more than 4GiB will be automatically splitted into parts of upto 4GiB C.Suthorn (talk) 17:39, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@C.Suthorn: That sounds very useful, but it looks like Offroader is an Android app and so isn't a total replacement for Video2Commons (i.e. isn't available to people who don't have an Android phone). SWilson (WMF) (talk) 02:29, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Last I checked, this was working fine for YouTube videos (though it had been down for many months prior, which was a problem on YouTube's end on mass-downloading by API). What is the issue? czar22:22, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
What are the errors that happen intermittently? Is there a bug reported for these? I think this proposal needs to be a bit more specific about what it's asking for (generally we try to avoid "fix issues with x" type of proposals, because they can suffer from scope creep). SWilson (WMF) (talk) 05:54, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know if there are formal bug reports. Most people will not file bug reports at phabricator, github, etc. Reports keep popping up at the talk pages of v2c, VP, HD and so on. The main issue IMHO is, that there is no maintainer. One problem: The source of File:The Lost World (1925), full HD (1080p).webm cannot be uploaded with v2c, because the transcode will be larger than 4GiB, but v2c will not tell you what the problem is. C.Suthorn (talk) 09:08, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]