I know YouTube is a terrible provider of pirated content and also that it is almost impossible to pirate without a VPN, but I would like to know: if I download a movie from YouTube (directly from it, of course) without a VPN, will I receive “that type of message” from my ISP?

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 month ago

    yt-dlp streams those chunks into the final file

    This is entirely incorrect;

    --http-chunk-size SIZE          Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP
                                                downloading, e.g. 10485760 or 10M (default
                                                is disabled).

    Chunks are disabled by default with yt-dlp. You’re thinking of fragments, which are not how the video file is captured, just how its saved.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 month ago

      I was basing what I said on the http.py file:

      while True:
                try:
                    # Download and write
                    data_block = ctx.data.read(block_size if not is_test else min(block_size, data_len - byte_counter))
                except TransportError as err:
                    retry(err)

                byte_counter += len(data_block)

      I might still be wrong but that’s how I thought it downloaded any video file over http

      Edit. After reading the code a bit more I see that you were correct.