On 2014-04-15 17:43, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 04/13/2014 09:24 PM, Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Have you considered using smplayer to download YouTube videos? Doesn't support rate limiting but I found it easier to download with.
It is a possibility, but any viewer to be usable has to download a continuous stream, or it will stutter. To avoid stutter means choosing low quality video, in order to reduce bandwidth - and logically, I want better quality, which means download in advance. And downloading in advance at full pipe speed clogs internet on my system for long intervals, so much so that even DNS fails. So rate limiting is a must have.
Have you checked your router to see if it supports QOS for different formats.
It is IP/port based. If you read the thread, the best solution so far is using trickle -d 50 youtube-dl -f NUMBER URL It works fantastically well. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)