Youtube - Slow Downloading Process Nowadays

[devilcoelhodog]

Hello, dear all.

Some days ago I could notice ( for me ) that downloading videos from Youtube is a lot slower than usual.

I usually use: Advanced Youtube Client - AYC, youtube-dl-gui and some other programs to assist me.

But I do not know why such downloads get slow nowadays on that site.

What happened? Some changes on Youtube protocol or something? Maybe yt-dlp ( and other tools ) must be updated to deal better with this new changes?

How can I solve this problem? Maybe I'm doing something wrong or not proper?

Thanks for your time.

Best regards.

[davexnet]

I noticed this also, seems artificially limited to about 50kbps.

[larits]

It's not just you. Check their github or read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/11gna52/youtube_is_slow_megathread/

[davexnet]

Official update just released

[codehound]

youtube-dl ? really ?

do you guys actually READ this forum ?

[deccavox]

Yes, I too have noticed the same. Standard (youtube-dl?? wow blast from the past), yt-dlp can be 50Kbps or so.
However, if you use aria2c, you'll get downloads 300Kbps - 2Mbps or so.
I've downloaded from YT over the past few days a large number of tutorials, both single downloads and playlists and this is what I've found.
Make sure you use latest yt-dlp version. Some recent previous versions don't work with YT anymore.
so, for newbies, download aria2c: https://aria2.github.io/
Recommendation: put it on C: drive with Windows PATH to it.
Or put aria2c.exe in working folder.
Then use (this is generic for YouTube, there's many options but I'm not here to go through some of them)
yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[height<=1080][ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]" --downloader aria2c --embed-chapters "YT_url"
YT_url is the YT URL
If you don't specify bestvideo spec etc, you'll end up with a webm download which is shite.

If you use the now more popular -N 6 (or whatever), the download speed is back to the crappy 50Kbps or so.

[larits]

youtube-dl ? really ?

do you guys actually READ this forum ?

It's only youtube-dl in name because that's how it started, but the GUI's and posts are all referring to yt-dlp, which released a new version a few hours ago.

[darkw4v3]

The problem here is that you can't use the range header anymore. You need to download chunks whilst specifying the range as a query parameter. (eg &range=1234-5678)

I imagine all the decent YT DL tools have patched for this by now.

[Candybar]

I've tried a bunch of video downloader apps and plugins. Houlo video downloader is by far the only app that can get full download speed.

[Adithya]

Hello, dear all.

Some days ago I could notice ( for me ) that downloading videos from Youtube is a lot slower than usual.

I usually use: Advanced Youtube Client - AYC, youtube-dl-gui and some other programs to assist me.

Hi I know this is a bit late, if you are still having speed issues with AYC, make sure you are on the latest version and enter a in the input box, it'll enable aria2c. Like deccavox said that is a sure way to speed up things.

[gareth41]

I wrote a php-cli script which spins up around 30 threads on Ubuntu with each one downloading a 500kb segment of the youvideo, at the end all the segments are joined again using shell_exec() and the linux cat command