New switch request --minimum-rate

[konomikitten]

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I'd like to request a feature to restart a download when the speed is too slow, I sometimes encounter videos that will download at my full connection speed and then sometimes will download a 20 KiB/s or less. Restarting youtube-dl with the same url remedies this but having youtube-dl do it automatically would be nice. Example, youtube-dl --minimum-rate RATE.

[dstftw]

--http-chunk-size.