youtube-dl doesn't download in background

[lucasdelion]

I don't know exactly why the program is behaving like this, but to download videos I have to keep the command window up and interacting with it (clicking, typing) otherwise the download keeps frozen.

I already updated the version but it's still happenning.
The command I used was: youtube-dl -a videos.txt -f 135+140

I also have a download speed higher than 10Mb/s but it goes down to 700kb/s

update: When I don't go back to the window after some time I get this error:
ERROR: content too short (expected 57207748 bytes and served 56618658)

[phihag]

youtube-dl is a command-line program and as such has no concept of clicking or typing. Can you elaborate on a setup? Also, a video or so would be nice for this strange error.

YouTube throttles the download speed, at least if you're downloading via IPv4, so the reduction is to be expected.

A content too short error is likely a problem with the server side. Can you post the output you get with -v when this error occurs?

[treaki]

have you tryed to use the option --bidi-workaround ??

[lucasdelion]

I'm here again and unfortunately the error disappeared within 2 days, I cannot reproduce it again but if it happens I'll try to post the output with -v.

[treaki]

which terminal or terminal emulator have you used at the time the problem came across? Possible the problem happened because of your terminalemulator didn't processed the output of youtube-dl in time... Many console application have an insufficient internal output buffer which can become a problem. Maybe youtube-dl should be checked this way to find out if my assumption is correct...