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[Feature Request] Add command --concurrent-fragments #189
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@dunanight what are the potential downsides to using this argument? Any chance of blacklisting or rate limiting by a target service? |
I am not sure about any potential downsides to using this argument. I'd imagine if there is any issues it would be listed in the yt-dlp page. I personally have used the |
Turning it of by default will cause serious issues with providers like Instagram, who very aggressively throttle rip attempts if it thinks you're using a CLI downloader. I can look into it. What downloader does it use? Does it force aria2c? We'd have to update deps for that. |
this does speed up downloading for that one extractor/site, but only by a 25 percent in my testing. Push up a PR with this as a flag and I'd be willing to merge it. |
I'm concerned this would break sites like youtube. I vote this issue be kept open and investigated though. |
yt-dlp supports multi-threaded fragments downloads with
--concurrent-fragments
, I was wondering if it was possible to add this command for faster vod downloads.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: