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Downloads from PeerTube should use torrents, HTTP is rate limited #17368
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Torrents are out of scope of youtube-dl. |
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I'm an administrator of a PeerTube instance, and I've noticed that youtube-dl has support for PeerTube. This is great!
However, it seems to download via a single HTTP connection, whereas PeerTube expects clients to use WebTorrent in order to share the bandwidth load. A client that uses only HTTP connections won't be as fast as a torrent-capable client, and a client that uses only a single HTTP connection will be hitting the server's per-connection rate limit, which is set to 800 kB/s by default.
It would be great if youtube-dl could discover the torrent link instead of the HTTP seed, to avoid overloading the single origin server.
Re test videos, there are many PeerTube instances listed at:
https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances
My own instance is diode.zone, and a sample URL for a long video that might be a good performance test:
https://diode.zone/videos/watch/2f1544f6-3a3b-4cd0-bb72-c57d2e2d1e9b