Downloading video as a single file rather than multiple files

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Found out that youtube-dl downloads the video as multiple files instead of one file, which is much slower on my machine, used to be able to download videos several megabytes a second, now only downloads at a few hundred kilobytes per second. I would like an option to download the videos the old way.

[dstftw]

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