[jpstewart]

There have been at least a couple of threads here discussing youtube-dl in the past, so I thought I'd pass along a tip I wish I'd known about sooner.

In recent months YouTube has done something leading to youtube-dl being throttled to about 70 KB/sec download speed.  I put up with it for a while before doing some Google searching to find out what to do about it.  That's when I found out that:

1. it was a deliberate change by YouTube
   
2. it could be worked around but youtube-dl hadn't been updated to do so
   
3. there's a more actively-matined fork called yt-dlp that has the necessary changes
   

So, if anyone else out there is still using the original youtube-dl, I recommend you at least check out yt-dlp instead.  It's mostly compatible and it's man page clearly documents that changes they've made.