pukkandan

Other than a few commits [1], everything in youtube-dl is already in yt-dlp. You can see upto which upstream commit is merged into yt-dlp in the changelog [2]

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/21 [2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/Changelog.md#20...

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

The new version works without re-encode. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2021.09.02

Make sure to read the note at the bottom of changelog, since some options have changed