Why is youtube-dl slow to download videos?

Question

YouTube

C:\youtube-dl.exe -i -o "D:\папка\%(uploader)s\%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPMk6Rge6I98En-zFDuMa7w

[download] 75.5% of 163.80MiB at 50.35KiB/s ETA 13:37
download speed for some reason is 50 kb/s
while internet connection on speedtest.net is under 100 mb/s

C:\Users\bezvozni>ping youtube.com
Обмен пакетами с youtube.com [172.217.20.174] с 32 байтами данных:
Ответ от 172.217.20.174: число байт=32 время=26мс TTL=117

and the ping with YouTube is 26ms

, what could be the reason for this? how to speed up the download?

Answer 1

Don't speed up. YouTube does not have a "download video" function, so the video "downloads" at the same speed as it plays in the browser.

Answer 2

In short, opened several windows for downloading

Answer 3

https://qna.habr.com/q/1044166