Am Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 09:51:47PM +0100 schrieb tastytea: > 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.
I’ve also been observing this for a while now. Since I’m patient, I couldn’t bother yet to dig deeper. I checked the user agent and it seems inconspicuous. Maybe they detect it through the way youtube-dl first loads the video’s manifest, or because it’s missing a cookie or something. > > Now, I have a Winblows box in the same > > network and I don't get the slowdown. Watching in the browser is also no problem here. Back in the very old days, I opened the video in the browser, let it load and then copied the actual video file from the adobe flash cache directory. :D > > 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. Same here on Arch. > The fork everyone is using now is yt-dlp (net-misc/yt-dlp). It downloads > with normal speeds. Thanks for the tip, I installed it right away and will try to change my muscle memory. Incidentally, I set up a bash alias ,y so I could type less to call youtube-dl, but then I removed it because too often I was at a system where the alias wasn’t present. Now I would have saved me the pain of change. -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Where there’s a villa, there’s a way.
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