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   Hello mark lewis!   
      
   ** On Sunday 23.01.22 - 04:43, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    AA>> Recently it seems that DLs seem to have slowed to about   
    AA>> 1/10th the speed.   
      
    ml> that could be caused by any number of things in the path   
    ml> from the server's file system to your system's file   
    ml> system, really...   
      
    ml> eg:   
    ml>   overloaded router in the path   
    ml>   active virus scanner scanning all traffic on the wire   
    ml>   DDOS on the sending or receiving end   
      
   Maybe it's just a recent/temporary slowdown across the     
   platform? I'm getting the same poor results whether on DSL or     
   mobile hotspot.   
      
    ml> ..it seems to be averaging 78KiB/s for a   
    ml> 17.4MiB file... i guess that's ok... this with the 2021   
    ml> Dec 17 update of youtube-dl... i can't say if that's good,   
    ml> bad, or average, though...   
      
   I had good +650KiB/s speed with the same (most recent) youtube-    
   dl  version right up to about 2 weeks ago.   
      
      
    ml> yt-dlp pulls the same video much much faster (3 seconds vs   
    ml> 3 minutes) but the output is slightly different (both   
    ml> video and audio are webm as is the final container vs   
    ml> youtube-dl's webm and m4a with final container being   
    ml> mkv)... i may not have everything installed that yt-dlp   
    ml> wants, though...   
      
   Wow. With yt-dlp at full speed vs youtube-dl toggled down then     
   the slowdown may indeed be something that YT is detecting with     
   youtube-dl usage and therefore adjusting the speed afterall.      
   Haven't tried yt-dlp yet.  I know that I can use VLC to do     
   conversions.   
      
      
    ml> in both cases of the above video, i see the same "playback   
    ml> problem" at the same position in the 25 second video but   
    ml> this may be due to playing them on this older system...   
    ml> the "problem" being large lag of the video image starting   
    ml> about 13 seconds into the video... this lag is not seen   
    ml> when playing the video directly from youtube on the same   
    ml> system, though...   
      
   Thx for chining back with the comparisons.  Looks like yt-dlp     
   wil be the next goto program for me.  I'm trying to DL a 311MB     
   file (already using the "-f 18" option in youtube-dl for a     
   lower quality version) ..but even that is taking 1hr 40min at     
   an average 50-60KiB/s.  :(   
      
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