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