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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

Am Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 09:51:47PM +0100 schrieb tastytea:
> On 2021-11-06 16:32-0400 John Covici <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.

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