Subj : youtube-dl?
To   : August Abolins
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Jan 23 2022 04:43 am


On 2022 Jan 22 08:23:08, you wrote to All:

AA> Anyone else using youtube-dl at YT on a regular basis?

i use it but i wouldn't say regularly... mostly for grabbing some rocket launch videos for later analysis...

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

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

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


FWIW:

i just pulled ULA's recent Atlas V launch video (Uz8zGWycsOY) and it seems to be averaging 78KiB/s for a 17.4MiB file... i guess that's ok... this with the 2021 Dec 17 update of youtube-dl... i can't say if that's good, bad, or average, though...

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

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

)\/(ark

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