multiple connections with aria2c

[ExtendedDev]

is it possible to properly configure aria2c for more than 4 connections. As is well known, by default using aria as ext dl 4 multiple connections are used. It would be a good idea to alter this arg number. For instance increase the number of ml connections to 6. Cl argument -x16 is unusable. --max-connection-per-server= also unusable in this case. It's sufficiently complex to use multiple arguments in --external-downloader-args ARGS It's difficult to find more detailed info in documentation of aria.

[dstftw]

You can use arbitrary command line to be passed to aria2c with --external-downloader-args and I don't see any problem using it.

[kidol]

Try this:

youtube-dl --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args "-j 8 -s 8 -x 8 -k 5M"

The trick is that -j, -s and -x must all be defined. Also -k ("max part size") defaults to 20M which means if you have a video of 40M, you can not use more than 2 connections by default. So better to lower it...

[dstftw]

Then define them all, what's the problem? Current default command line until you provide your own with --external-downloader-args is --min-split-size 1M --max-connection-per-server 4.

[kidol]

No problem, just trying to help that guy.

[ExtendedDev]

Thanks, it works perfectly. The main mistake that I made before I had forgotten the quotation marks on args parameters. -j 12 -s 12 -x 12 in my case, gives quickest speed, that is supported on my specs.