Subj : youtube-dl?
To   : mark lewis
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 23 2022 11:01 am

Hello mark lewis!

** On Sunday 23.01.22 - 04:43, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> Recently it seems that DLs seem to have slowed to about
 AA>> 1/10th the speed.

 ml> that could be caused by any number of things in the path
 ml> from the server's file system to your system's file
 ml> system, really...

 ml> eg:
 ml>   overloaded router in the path
 ml>   active virus scanner scanning all traffic on the wire
 ml>   DDOS on the sending or receiving end

Maybe it's just a recent/temporary slowdown across the  
platform? I'm getting the same poor results whether on DSL or  
mobile hotspot.

 ml> ..it seems to be averaging 78KiB/s for a
 ml> 17.4MiB file... i guess that's ok... this with the 2021
 ml> Dec 17 update of youtube-dl... i can't say if that's good,
 ml> bad, or average, though...

I had good +650KiB/s speed with the same (most recent) youtube- 
dl  version right up to about 2 weeks ago.


 ml> yt-dlp pulls the same video much much faster (3 seconds vs
 ml> 3 minutes) but the output is slightly different (both
 ml> video and audio are webm as is the final container vs
 ml> youtube-dl's webm and m4a with final container being
 ml> mkv)... i may not have everything installed that yt-dlp
 ml> wants, though...

Wow. With yt-dlp at full speed vs youtube-dl toggled down then  
the slowdown may indeed be something that YT is detecting with  
youtube-dl usage and therefore adjusting the speed afterall.   
Haven't tried yt-dlp yet.  I know that I can use VLC to do  
conversions.


 ml> in both cases of the above video, i see the same "playback
 ml> problem" at the same position in the 25 second video but
 ml> this may be due to playing them on this older system...
 ml> the "problem" being large lag of the video image starting
 ml> about 13 seconds into the video... this lag is not seen
 ml> when playing the video directly from youtube on the same
 ml> system, though...

Thx for chining back with the comparisons.  Looks like yt-dlp  
wil be the next goto program for me.  I'm trying to DL a 311MB  
file (already using the "-f 18" option in youtube-dl for a  
lower quality version) ..but even that is taking 1hr 40min at  
an average 50-60KiB/s.  :(

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