<story><title>YouTube-dl&apos;s first release since June 2021</title><url>https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.12.17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>For a long time now for me &lt;i&gt;youtube-dl&lt;/i&gt; downloads YouTube videos at 50kb&amp;#x2F;s, which makes it impractical to use in conjunction with &lt;i&gt;mpv&lt;/i&gt;. I need to leave &lt;i&gt;youtube-dl&lt;/i&gt; running in the background for several hours to then watch the video in &lt;i&gt;mpv&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Now from the comments I&amp;#x27;ve found out about &lt;i&gt;yt-dlp&lt;/i&gt;[1] which claims to fix this issue[2]. Will check it out.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;yt-dlp&amp;#x2F;yt-dlp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;yt-dlp&amp;#x2F;yt-dlp&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ytdl-org&amp;#x2F;youtube-dl&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;29326&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ytdl-org&amp;#x2F;youtube-dl&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;29326&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdimitar</author><text>It does fix it. I switched to `yt-dlp` months ago and never had a problem with throttled downloads anymore.&lt;p&gt;Little later I also discovered I could use `yt-dlp` together with the `aria2c` downloader and now I am never going below 15 MB&amp;#x2F;s when downloading.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube-dl&apos;s first release since June 2021</title><url>https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.12.17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>For a long time now for me &lt;i&gt;youtube-dl&lt;/i&gt; downloads YouTube videos at 50kb&amp;#x2F;s, which makes it impractical to use in conjunction with &lt;i&gt;mpv&lt;/i&gt;. I need to leave &lt;i&gt;youtube-dl&lt;/i&gt; running in the background for several hours to then watch the video in &lt;i&gt;mpv&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Now from the comments I&amp;#x27;ve found out about &lt;i&gt;yt-dlp&lt;/i&gt;[1] which claims to fix this issue[2]. Will check it out.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;yt-dlp&amp;#x2F;yt-dlp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;yt-dlp&amp;#x2F;yt-dlp&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ytdl-org&amp;#x2F;youtube-dl&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;29326&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ytdl-org&amp;#x2F;youtube-dl&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;29326&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>db48x</author><text>It’s not a bug. Youtube deliberately throttles downloads unless the client can answer a math question.</text></comment>