multiple videos at same time

[jaan143]

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[debug] System config: []
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hi Sir
i want to ask question
is it possible to download multiple videos from playlist ?
for example i want to download lynda or udemy course but i want that its start downloading atleast 5 video lectures at same time not one by one

[dstftw]

Not possible. For parallel downloads spawn multiple youtube-dl instances.

[TRox1972]

Though it's worth nothing that a PR allowing for parallel downloads was opened some time ago.

[Hrxn]

Since I don't see the point in downloading 5 videos in parallel, and OP didn't explain the reasoning, I'd assume that you are just trying to download more than one video at all, i.e. without executing the program again.

Which you actually can do, of course:

-a, --batch-file FILE
File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)

So, for example youtube-dl -a FILE.
Just put the URLs of the desired videos in FILE.
You might want to use the -i (or --ignore-errors) option as well, because youtube-dl aborts on every error as default.