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Memory usage is very large for some videos

See original GitHub issue

Checklist

I’m reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site
I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.04.08 (update instructions) or later (specify commit)
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
I’ve read the guidelines for opening an issue

Description

Memory usage spikes when downloading certain videos. For example:

yt-dlp 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mivcDoTjpQE' --output -  >/dev/null

See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mivcDoTjpQE

Memory usage spikes up to 570MB. This can cause out of memory errors on embedded computers like raspberry pi.

% grep ^VmPeak /proc/1945/status
VmPeak:	  584292 kB

Possible related to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/2512

Verbose log

% yt-dlp 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mivcDoTjpQE' --output -  -vU >/dev/null
[debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mivcDoTjpQE', '--output', '-', '-vU']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.04.08 [7884ade65]
[debug] Python version 3.9.2 (CPython 32bit) - Linux-5.15.32-v7+-armv7l-with-glibc2.31
[debug] Checking exe version: ffmpeg -bsfs
[debug] Checking exe version: ffprobe -bsfs
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.3-0, ffprobe 4.3.3-0
[debug] Optional libraries: brotli, certifi, Cryptodome, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Latest version: 2022.04.08, Current version: 2022.04.08
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.04.08)
[debug] [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mivcDoTjpQE
[youtube] mivcDoTjpQE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] mivcDoTjpQE: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] mivcDoTjpQE: Downloading MPD manifest
[youtube] mivcDoTjpQE: Downloading MPD manifest
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, codec:vp9.2, lang, proto
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec:vp9.2(10), acodec, lang, proto, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id
[debug] Default format spec: best/bestvideo+bestaudio
[info] mivcDoTjpQE: Downloading 1 format(s): 18
[debug] Invoking downloader on "https://rr4---sn-j5caxoxu-pn2d.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1649675156&ei=NLdTYq3ELoKFgwO7wayYAw&ip=69.112.107.63&id=o-AHc1dUd-gwVFXzXkEJuUTSlHD0wAIHJlVifZcBWrSaNs&itag=18&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=QP&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-j5caxoxu-pn2d%2Csn-p5qddn7d&ms=au%2Conr&mv=m&mvi=4&pl=21&initcwndbps=1657500&vprv=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=10130610015&ratebypass=yes&dur=720000.383&lmt=1596607579855703&mt=1649653251&fvip=5&fexp=24001373%2C24007246&c=ANDROID&txp=6216222&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cvprv%2Cmime%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cratebypass%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AOq0QJ8wRQIhAJbYUNcDmLFvkl_PCci-A_Z53F9100gJ3RVtfmm2u5taAiB1IYet8SM9FXiMRSMrEYEYdyvaIxEwoUOsbxklRpUYMQ%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRQIgTOoOzUVl1xiRl0i2I-Je5t0rm7rz1hMlKRKLeeKGadoCIQDpdoqdzXVUWT2IIgmg1EQhzpW78pb5QirOb8KXlxUw0g%3D%3D"
[debug] File locking is not supported on this platform. Proceeding without locking
[download] Destination: -
[download]   3.4% of 9.43GiB at 12.32MiB/s ETA 12:37