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Re:Youtube-dl is possibly dead by d0lphin on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:06PM (#28290678)
It's actually already broken. If you try to download more than 3-16 videos (the limit is not clear), you start to be rate limited to 300 kbps or so. According to Reddit this is fixed in a fork called yt-dlp
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Re:Youtube-dl is possibly dead by ketralnis on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:05PM (#28291735)
To be honest that sounds fine. You're presumably downloading it to watch it offline, the download speed isn't really material as long as it finishes eventually
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Re:Youtube-dl is possibly dead by majewsky on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:40PM (#28292336)
youtube-dl is also used by video players like mpv for live streaming. In this case, 70 kbps is completely unusable for the vast majority of videos.
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Re:Youtube-dl is possibly dead by geerlingguy on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:21PM (#28290926)
One other workaround is to use '-F' to get a list of formats, and choose one of the non-default formats to download. This seems to work for me.
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