From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2490F158086 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2021 21:42:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D4C32BC099; Sat, 6 Nov 2021 21:41:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from covici.com (debian-2.covici.com [166.84.7.93]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8BCFF2BC08C for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2021 21:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (ccs.covici.com [70.109.53.110]) (authenticated bits=0) by covici.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-22) with ESMTPSA id 1A6LfSl5474978 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2021 17:41:29 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.17.1/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 1A6LfkGF3616402 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2021 17:41:46 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.17.1/8.15.2/Submit) id 1A6LfkLR3616401; Sat, 6 Nov 2021 17:41:46 -0400 Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:41:46 -0400 Message-ID: From: John Covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl has been very slow In-Reply-To: <20211106215147.6f9cd0d1@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> References: <20211106215147.6f9cd0d1@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/27 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Organization: Covici Computer Systems Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: a4a1292a-d1f9-4d01-87ba-a1fe60651f9f X-Archives-Hash: 44d113879589937a10152084ac405477 On Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:51:47 -0400, tastytea wrote: > > [1 ] > On 2021-11-06 16:32-0400 John Covici wrote: > > > Hi. If I try to play a youtube video using a console app like mpv, or > > if I try to download a youtube video directly by using youtube-dl, the > > speed is about dialup speed. Now, I have a Winblows box in the same > > network and I don't get the slowdown. I have a program there which > > downloads the same exact youtube video quite rapidly. Is youtube-dl > > doing something wrong maybe by having a wrong user agent, or is there > > something else to be done? My version is 2021.06.06. This seems > > quite old to me for this program. > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > Google changed something to make youtube-dl slow and its development > seems to have stopped. > > The fork everyone is using now is yt-dlp (net-misc/yt-dlp). It > downloads with normal speeds. The newest version of the ebuild installs > a compatibility-wrapper so programs calling youtube-dl will > automatically use yt-dlp instead. Thanks much, I will try this out. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com