forthrin

My experience was that the same thing happened with `wget` and even `axel`, so I think you may just have been temporarily lucky if `wget` worked for you. I don't...

This seems to be the pattern: 1080p -- Either fast (10 minutes) 720p -- Always fast (~10 seconds) It seems regardless of this utility. Same happens with curl, axel, etc....

Thanks for reminding me about the importance of explaining core motivation when asking questions :) The core motivation is to not be stuck with a merged/post-processed file that has video/audio/subtitles...

@chrizilla: Thanks for the support. Yes, it's about being smarter about exceptions. Usually, you just want to download some media into a single file, and usually that goes all well....

@2011: Define "exists". And "pounding away" *when*? (Retry the same fragment forever before moving on?) @chrizilla: Good point on coming up with a specific solution. I already outlined some above....

> > 4. Continuously merge all consequtive fragments (see OP) to keep the dir as clean as possible. > > Keeping directory "clean" is not an objective of yt-dlp. Set...

So `--continue-on-unavailable-fragments` means `--merge-final-file-despite-missing-fragments`? If so, I'm totally on board. I would set this to "NO" then, and TBH would expect it to be the default. What about the part...

@chrizilla: Happy to hear we seem to have found a concise common ground that that makes good sense (avoid corruption, without unnecessary inconvenience), and would seem easy to implement. Hopefully...

You have to be impressed with the work involved in maintaining a project like this and keeping tabs on so many suggestions and opinions. Maybe others will weigh in. Let's...

Thanks for your prompt and helpful feedback. Great tip about `ts`in `moreutils`! - Skipping `-v` saves 1 second. - Adding `--use-extractor SVTPlay` saves 0.5 seconds. - Using `make lazy-extractors` seems...