ratelimit - actual speed is 2xRatelimit

[Forever-Young]

When I specify "-r 50k" it downloads with 100kb/s speed.
100k - [download] 67.6% of 108.05M at 198.16k/s ETA 03:00

[yasoob]

yes ratelimit is not working for me either.

[HarveyHunt]

Is it being downloaded at twice the rate limit speed, or just displayed as being twice the rate limit speed?

[Forever-Young]

$ youtube-dl --version
2013.11.13

$ time youtube-dl -r 50k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h52MFSsO3AU
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] h52MFSsO3AU: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] h52MFSsO3AU: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] h52MFSsO3AU: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: 20131112-SteveSpanglerScience-Balancing Glass - Sick Science! #169-h52MFSsO3AU.mp4
[download]   9.6% of 2.60MiB at 98.60KiB/s ETA 00:24
....
[download] 100% of 2.60MiB in 00:53

real    0m55.059s
user    0m0.330s
sys     0m0.023s

$ bc
2.6*1024/53
50

So actual speed is as specified, but displayed doubled.