Youtube download speed still slow

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site support
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• 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

Description

It’s great to see that youtube-dl has finally received an update. However, the slow download speed issue is still present. @dstftw Do you plan to update youtube-dl to fix this problem?

[alakani]

The fact that a vaguely useful project ever existed here is merely coincidental; this project was created solely as a way for its malignant narcissist maintainer to use more people as a source of narcissistic supply. He has time to troll his own users every single day but apparently no time to do releases in 6 months. Brew install yt-dlp it’s a fork by people who actually give a crap, all the bugs that dstftw uses as an excuse to attack and gaslight users were fixed in the other port many many months ago; speeds are good, the insane command line options make sense now and the defaults are actually useful, and thinking about using it doesn’t make me want to decapitate myself. YMMV

[FranciscoPombal]

Just use https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp instead.

The current maintainer has proven himself to be incapable of properly steering this project.

Admittedly, this is a hard thing to do for a project of this size and reach, but by no means an insurmountable task - people organize themselves all the time to do this successfully. However, the total refusal to seek help, delegate, and communicate, resulting in a period of 6 month-long radio silence followed a paltry release that doesn’t fix the most pressing issue (throttling) without further explanations or apologies in such a crucial project is just inexcusable.

It is irresponsible and damaging to the FOSS world to run an important project like this. Less technical users who don’t keep up with every little bit of news haven’t heard about yt-dlp, and so have been stuck with a barely-functioning youtube-dl release for months.

At this point the maintainer should cede the repository to the maintainers of yt-dlp, so that they can continue its development under the better-known youtube-dl “brand”/name. The last thing that we need is for youtube-dl to become another Apache OpenOffice: 1, 2.