Dailymotion download is slow

[sikro94]

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Hello
I notice that the downloading of dailymotion videos is very slow. Indeed, it is fast up to 35%, then it drops, which leads to several minutes of downloading instead of a few seconds.

I was able to solve the speed problem thanks to this order:

while :; do timeout 10 youtube-dl https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pp4zu; done

But I'm mostly looking for a way to avoid that and only go through youtube-dl to get a fast download. I couldn't find any settings or anything else to quickly download a dailymotion video.

Any idea ? Thank you

[remitamine]

--http-chunk-size SIZE           Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP
                                 downloading (e.g. 10485760 or 10M) (default
                                 is disabled). May be useful for bypassing
                                 bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver
                                 (experimental)