Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl has been very slow

[John Covici]

On Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:51:47 -0400,
tastytea wrote:
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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
> > 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.


Thanks much, I will try this out.

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