Super slow downloads & other problems

Checklist

• [ x] I’m reporting a broken site support
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
• [ x] 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

Verbose log

PASTE VERBOSE LOG HERE

C:\Users\MR\Downloads\youtube dl 2>youtube-dl --update ERROR: can’t find the current version. Please try again later.

C:\Users\MR\Downloads\youtube dl 2>youtube-dl --verbose --update [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: [] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: [‘–verbose’, ‘–update’] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.04.26 [debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041 [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2020-08-31-4a11a6f, ffprobe git-2020-08-31-4a11a6f [debug] Proxy map: {} Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 1183, in do_open File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py”, line 1137, in request File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py”, line 1182, in _send_request File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py”, line 1133, in endheaders File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py”, line 963, in _send_output File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py”, line 898, in send File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py”, line 1287, in connect File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\ssl.py”, line 362, in wrap_socket File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\ssl.py”, line 580, in init File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\ssl.py”, line 807, in do_handshake ConnectionResetError: [WinError 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpeav8wi2f\build\youtube_dl\update.py”, line 46, in update_self File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 464, in open File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 482, in _open File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 442, in _call_chain File “C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpeav8wi2f\build\youtube_dl\utils.py”, line 2737, in https_open File “C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 1185, in do_open urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [WinError 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host>

ERROR: can’t find the current version. Please try again later.

C:\Users\MR\Downloads\youtube dl 2>

Description

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I can not update and i have other problems as well but can’t even see if updating might fix them.

[uunnxx]

@TENTHARSOS look at this one: This yt-dlp fork works just fine.

[Det87]

Is youtube-dl dead now? The fork’s where it’s at?