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		ketralnis on Aug 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Youtube-dl is possibly dead To be honest that sounds fine. You're presumably downloading it to watch it offline, the download speed isn't really material as long as it finishes eventually

majewsky on Aug 24, 2021 [–]

youtube-dl is also used by video players like mpv for live streaming. In this case, 70 kbps is completely unusable for the vast majority of videos.

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