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		dasl on Aug 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional feature... youtube has recently been implementing download speed throttling on some video downloads. See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326 . Youtube-dl does not yet have a solution for this occasional download speed throttling. This yt-dlp fork has a workaround (though not a true fix) for the issue: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326#issuecom...

makeworld on Aug 27, 2021 [–]

I'm pretty sure you don't even need those flags, and it just uses the non-throttled mdoe by default: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/492

pukkandan on Sept 3, 2021 | [–]

you are correct. That comment is only applicable for the old version. Newer versions will bypass throttling out of the box

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