Update I got this: "I would recommend watching the video in FreeTube, writing down all the time ranges and then using yt-dlp with it's --download-sections option. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp". - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

> Any links or ideas of how to make sure Google is aware of this? Cancel the account. That's the only real signal you can send. Switch to simply downloading YT content: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

If you're looking to download source material from the internet, yt-dlp is a great tool that can extract and save videos locally from a wide variety of sources like youtube, twitter and more. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago

The classic yt-dlp was how this all began, to be honest this one still confuses me but well figure that out in development. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

This seems to be a pretty straightforward GUI wrapper around https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode (see https://github.com/PackJC/YoutubeToMP3/blob/main/Form1.cs is a well-maintained public domain alternative. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Ccextractor -- a fairly simple utility to extract closed captions from various MPEG format files into SRT subtitles. MakeMKV can be configured to use it when ripping DVDs (if they have closed captions). Source: about 1 year ago

Use https://ccextractor.org/ to validate that the captions are there. ccextractor has report mode, g608 and ttxt modes which can be used to debug. Source: almost 2 years ago

Https://ccextractor.org/ is another option. Source: over 2 years ago

Subtitles can generally be extracted from the VOB files using the program "ccextractor". You can get it at "https://ccextractor.org/". Source: over 2 years ago