On 2021-11-06 16:32-0400 John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > Hi. If I try to play a youtube video using a console app like mpv, or > if I try to download a youtube video directly by using youtube-dl, the > speed is about dialup speed. Now, I have a Winblows box in the same > network and I don't get the slowdown. I have a program there which > downloads the same exact youtube video quite rapidly. Is youtube-dl > doing something wrong maybe by having a wrong user agent, or is there > something else to be done? My version is 2021.06.06. This seems > quite old to me for this program. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. >
Google changed something to make youtube-dl slow and its development seems to have stopped. The fork everyone is using now is yt-dlp (net-misc/yt-dlp). It downloads with normal speeds. The newest version of the ebuild installs a compatibility-wrapper so programs calling youtube-dl will automatically use yt-dlp instead. Kind regards, tastytea -- Get my PGP key with `gpg --locate-keys tasty...@tastytea.de` or at <https://tastytea.de/tastytea.asc>.
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