There's so many posts in this thread attempting to explain this issue with nothing more than supposition and guesswork behind it, yet there are ways to determine why this is happening. I don't know if these crashes are all occurring for the same reason, but let...
For example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos from google videos for youtube-dl "large apple". Use the value "auto" to let youtube-dl guess ("auto_warning" to emit a warning when guessing). "error" just throws an error. The default value "fixup_error" repairs broken URLs, but ...