Am Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:29:24 +0000 (GMT)
schrieb Jim Lesurf <noise@audiomisc.co.uk>:
I only rarely want to watch a youtube video, and when I do I've used youtube-dl. However when I just tried it for the first time in ages
the fetching rate is sub-real-time. Updating didn't fix this. But
the video came though OK eventually.
Have YT throttled access to cause this? And if so, is there aI also experienced that youtube-dl download at an extremely low speed,
work-around, or a fix that'll be made for an updated youtube-dl?
about 50KB/s.
It is not a fault at your side.
I only rarely want to watch a youtube video, and when I do I've used youtube-dl. However when I just tried it for the first time in agesI also experienced that youtube-dl download at an extremely low speed,
the fetching rate is sub-real-time. Updating didn't fix this. But the
video came though OK eventually.
Have YT throttled access to cause this? And if so, is there a
work-around, or a fix that'll be made for an updated youtube-dl?
I only rarely want to watch a youtube video, and when I do I've used youtube-dl. However when I just tried it for the first time in ages the fetching rate is sub-real-time. Updating didn't fix this. But the video
came though OK eventually.
Have YT throttled access to cause this? And if so, is there a work-around,
or a fix that'll be made for an updated youtube-dl?
I wouldn't be surprised if it was YouTube itself which somehow throttles
the download. They are after all the self-appointed copyright police.
You could try using yt-dlp instead. I haven't used it yet, but
apparently it's a fork from youtube-dl and it doesn't have the throttle problem.
Apparently, YouTube changed their fetching algorithm sometime in early October, for which the app "4k Download" needed to update their program.
This is what the "4k Download" people posted on 12 Oct:
"Guys, there are current issues with the speed of downloading videos
from YouTube due to changes in the YouTube algorithm. We are aware of
the issue and are working on fixing this. Thank you for anderstanding"
A later release of "4k Download" did indeed fix it. So maybe youtube-dl hasn't been similarly updated.
Having done some searching after my initial posting I've found some references to 'aria2' as being a way to deal with the behaviour via making multiple parallel fetches. I'll see if I can find out more. Anyone here
tried it?
...and also try the 'dlp' version to see if that's simpler and better
from my POV.
I did a '-U' self-update of youtube-dl yesterday and it didn't fix the >problem. So I assume they haven't fixed this, at least by then. Nor did I
see any mention of the problem when I had a quick look at the github pages.
I only rarely want to watch a youtube video, and when I do I've used youtube-dl. However when I just tried it for the first time in ages the fetching rate is sub-real-time. Updating didn't fix this. But the video
came though OK eventually.
Have YT throttled access to cause this? And if so, is there a work-around,
or a fix that'll be made for an updated youtube-dl?
On 2021-11-29, Jim Lesurf <noise@audiomisc.co.uk> wrote:
I only rarely want to watch a youtube video, and when I do I've used youtube-dl. However when I just tried it for the first time in ages
the fetching rate is sub-real-time. Updating didn't fix this. But the
video came though OK eventually.
Have YT throttled access to cause this? And if so, is there a
work-around, or a fix that'll be made for an updated youtube-dl?
You might like to try Open Video Downloader
https://www.videohelp.com/software/Open-Video-Downloader
Apt image on this link. Cross platform.
I have found this to be great at downloading, given that the internet
does slow down for one at random times.
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