[bayesianbot]

Anyone else having throttling problems with yt-dlp lately? I always watch youtube through mpv that uses yt-dlp on the background, but last week it's been terrible. It starts quickly (I've throttled it to 500kBps so that's the starting speed) but then after a while I'm getting a second of stream for three seconds of download, so I gotta queue up the video long time before playing. I'm using git version of yt-dlp and haven't noticed anything related in the git issues.

[jorams]

mpv only uses yt-dlp to get a video URL, then passes that URL to ffmpeg. ffmpeg doesn't implement the workarounds with range headers, so you get throttled. It's possible to have yt-dlp perform the download, pipe it to mpv and make mpv play from stdin, but it breaks seeking to parts that haven't been downloaded yet. There are many issues about this in the mpv issue tracker.