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Automatic rate limiting - using a headless video player #23181
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Nowadays providers check the throughput and ban an account when videos are downloaded to quick. Also videos have a different bitrate or even the bitrate changes through the video. Setting
limit-rateto a specific rate is difficult and to not get banned setting it way too low.Providers can produce videos with changing bitrates to detect downloaders with a fixed
--limit-rate.Make youtube-dl capable of automatic rate-limiting (throttling) by piping the downloaded video into a video player (headless) who takes care of the bitrate, to emulate an interactive user.
This allows to download at the highest possible rate.