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 No.1016222>>1016224 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Apologies for what is essentially a longwinded tech advice thread. I wasn't sure where else to put it and I feel I can't sit on this information with websites ramping up their efforts to stop you from downloading their FREE content

I don't know about anyone else, but I am constantly plagued by shitty connections, download speeds, and overall experiences on pretty much every video/streaming website. It's mostly contained to youtube but that's mostly because I very rarely visit video sites for this reason and use yt-dl for the heavy lifting while I am asleep or something. Even then, I simply could not get a decent connection to youtube through youtube-dl.

Well I've come to find out that perhaps the youtube-dl "throttling" issue may largely be the result of downloaders like aria cucking their users. As I was attempting to fix a speed issue with yt-dl for about the 100th time, I happened upon a small footnote in the manpage of aria that I had overlooked many times before.

>https://aria2.github.io/manual/en/html/aria2c.html

>-s, --split=<N>

>[...]

>Note

>Some Metalinks regulate the number of servers to connect. aria2 strictly respects them. This means that if Metalink defines the maxconnections attribute lower than N, then aria2 uses the value of this lower value instead of N.

Essentially, aria is saying "if the website says you can't download in parallel, we won't let you. Fuck off".

I have since switched to axel and the difference is stunning. I've gone from MAYBE 50kb/s average 200kb/s max to 500kb/s average and around 2mb/s max. My internet is shit and suffice to say my average download speed is around 1-2mb/s on a good day. So while this isn't really close to where it could be it's miles ahead of where it was. As a comparison, I've never had an issue with downloaders built into/for web browsers.

Anyone else having decent download speeds without aria? How about with? I'd be interested to know if it's specific people and setups they are targeting or if this is a blanket way of trying to stop users from using download accelerators.

 No.1016224>>1016227

>>1016222 (OP)

>Metalink defines the maxconnections attribute lower than N, then aria2 uses the value of this lower value instead of N.

>Essentially, aria is saying "if the website says you can't download in parallel, we won't let you. Fuck off".

Wrong and is only the metalink protocol which I have never encountered


 No.1016227>>1016230 >>1016233

>>1016224

Perhaps I'm not as tech savvy as you. Would you mind explaining the discrepancy between the downloaders? Nothing in my setup has changed except which downloader I use and of course axel does not respect strictly the maxconnections attribute.


 No.1016230>>1016232 >>1016348

>>1016227

>website says: pls don't rape my butthole

>aria says: ok

>axel says: bit the pillow


 No.1016232>>1016237

>>1016230

>youtube can be raped by any one person

>youtube doesn't deserved to be raped

>google doesn't deserve to take it in the ass for a change


 No.1016233

>>1016227

Do you even know what a metalink protocol? I don't know either.


 No.1016236>>1016447

Freetards recommended to me to switch to uget from JDownloader 100% bloat edition.

Downloads were slow, the GUI sucked and the entire program sucked.

It uses curl, aria2 or both.

All download managers suck. Why has no one ever made a good one?


 No.1016237>>1016239

>>1016232

>implying i implied any of this


 No.1016239

>>1016237

>duuh duh website says it no want the bum rips xddddddddd

<some websites deserve it

>DAS NOT WHAT I SAID I A GOOD BOI NEBER DO NUFFIN WROG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


 No.1016276

good, i don't download or rent any "application" I essentially download programs or software when needed, and I'm confident these are not online services, but a real software that will work offline without internet connexion or control.

reject these services sold as "applications."


 No.1016335>>1016349

>Essentially, aria is saying "if the website says you can't download in parallel, we won't let you. Fuck off".

You forget that it's trivial to just ban ips doing more connections than desired. Either way, if you can't modify a client to disrespect convention for personal gain, then that's a "you" problem.


 No.1016348

>>1016230

websites deserve rape for trying to be a gatekeeper to content hosted on a centralized server instead of letting the network host it for them for free (bittorrent, freenet, etc)


 No.1016349

>>1016335

No, it's lack of a feature. Most restrictions on websites can be worked around once you're interfacing to them at socket level.


 No.1016447

>>1016236

>All download managers suck. Why has no one ever made a good one?

Have you tried IDM (Internet Download Manager)?

Yes, it is Win32 only, closed source and payware (I've always used cracked versions and never had problems), but in my experience nothing comes close to it.

Its browser integration module gets around almost all anti-download manager scripting shenanigans, and it buttrapes any server dry with salt on top for maxxed out dl speeds. Just today I used it to get 3 MB/s from a server that was giving me literal dial-up dl speeds (around 9 KB/s) when downloading straight from the browser.




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