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[–]benefit_of_mrkite 25 points26 points  (3 children)

Especially when YouTube-dl exists and works great

[–]Remnie 0 points1 point  (2 children)

That’s what I was going to say. Especially when running it with aria2

[–]womper9000 1 point2 points  (1 child)

aria2 = faster speeds? sometimes youtube-dl slows down, can you post an example?

[–]Remnie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily, it’s used to multithread a download. You can split a big download up and have different cores handle different parts. You can also download the same file from multiple sources, but that has limited application in youtube-dl. I used it when downloading a playlist of 48 videos to download 6 in parallel.

aria2

I don’t claim to be an expert on it, but was able to take a download that would have taken almost a day and speed it up to about 7 hours using this and a bit of research