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DownloadMediaStreamAsync taking too long

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When using DownloadMediaStreamAsync to download even a short video it will use up to a minute to return. PS: It worked fine a few days ago.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:33 (18 by maintainers)

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shikhir-aroracommented, Jan 27, 2018

I’m not using YouTubeExplode here, but that doesn’t really work. It scales a bit and certainly helps with large files because the DASH throttle doesn’t kick in as fast (but we’re still talking several minutes with many connections to download an hour video, better than the hour it could take but not suitable for real-time). With youtube-dl: https://github.com/GieselaDev/Giesela/commit/222d41796d0318b0fd61472c7703751d0577d85e#commitcomment-27136405

Mixcloud has been doing this for a long time @Tyrrrz – similar to what you described. That’s why efficient Mixcloud downloaders use an approach by proxy and serving multiple client connections.

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Tyrrrzcommented, Jan 27, 2018

So good news, I guess. I quickly threw together a segmented downloader and it managed to download a 3:50 video in less than a second, compared to ~2 minutes from before.