`GetMediaStreamAsync` To handle Youtube stuff?

GetMediaStreamAsync that would handle rate limiting for me?

It took me 2 hours until it occured to me to check how DownloadMediaStreamAsync works.

I would like to get a stream that handles all the Youtube “shenanigans” for me, because right now to make my stream work I would have to basically copy DownloadMediaStreamAsyc code, instead of reusing it from this library?

[Tyrrrz]

It would be really difficult to return a single stream that will run multiple HTTP requests behind the hood and I think in most use-cases it’s not worth it. However I added an overload for DownloadMediaStreamAsync that takes stream as an output (instead of file path), this way you can copy the contents to a stream at full speed, without allocating the video in memory. In your example, however, you would need to figure out a different way to use it, because the way it is you’ll still have a memory stream anyway, but at least now you won’t have to copy-paste the rate-bypass logic from YoutubeExplode.

[Tyrrrz]

Yeah you will have to clean up after yourself I guess, but you really shouldn’t load large binary files into RAM. I will do something to make it possible though.