What does a Reddit video downloader do?
It reads a Reddit post and returns the video hosted on v.redd.it behind it. The reason this needs a tool at all is a design decision Reddit made that nothing else on this list shares: video and audio are stored as two separate files.
Reddit serves video over DASH, where each quality of the picture is one stream and the sound is another, and the player combines them as it plays. That is efficient for streaming and surprising for downloading, because a naive save gets the video stream alone. This is the single most common complaint about Reddit downloads, and the reason so many of them come back silent. Here both parts are listed: the video renditions by height, and the audio track as its own file.
Combining them is a separate step, and the honest position is that your browser cannot do it for you from a link. If you need one file with sound, download both and join them with a tool that does it without re-encoding, which takes a second and loses nothing. Many Reddit videos have no audio track at all, in which case the video file alone is the whole post and nothing is missing.
Crossposts are worth knowing about. A crosspost is a pointer to the original submission, and the media lives with the original. The link resolves either way, but the title and subreddit you see may be the original's rather than the crosspost's.
Public subreddits can be read. A private subreddit, a quarantined one, or a post removed by a moderator serves nothing to a logged-out visitor, and no tool working from a link alone can see inside. Old.reddit.com, www.reddit.com, the share link and a direct v.redd.it link all point at the same place and all work.
How do I download a Reddit video with sound?
Copy the post link
Press Share under the post and choose Copy link, or copy the URL from the address bar. An old.reddit.com link or a direct v.redd.it link works too.
Paste it here
Drop the link in the box or press Paste. Share tracking parameters are stripped before the lookup runs.
Read the post
Press Grab video. The video renditions are listed by height, largest first, with the audio track as its own button where the post has one.
Take both parts
Download the video you want and, if the post has sound, the audio as well. Join the two with a tool that copies the streams rather than re-encoding them.
Key Features
The audio is not left out
Reddit stores sound as a separate DASH track, which is why so many Reddit downloads arrive silent. It is listed here as its own file instead of being quietly dropped
Every picture quality
Each rendition Reddit holds is offered by height, largest first, rather than whichever one the player chose for your connection
Crossposts resolve
A crosspost points at the original submission where the media actually lives, and the link resolves either way
Every Reddit domain
www.reddit.com, old.reddit.com, the short share link and a direct v.redd.it address all work without converting one to another first
Frequently Asked Questions
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