The "YouTube Video and Audio Downloader (WebEx)" plugin downloads slowly

[kacper6768]

I use the "YouTube Video and Audio Downloader (WebEx)" plug-in in the Firefox web browser, but videos from YouTube are downloaded slowly.

48,5KB/s
Normally, data downloads over the Internet at a speed of 2,4 MB/s
I use 64-bit Windows 10 Pro 22H2 and the latest 64-bit version of Firefox.

[Eigenvektor]

YouTube is a streaming platform, not a download platform. There's no reason for them to provide more bandwidth to a single connection than is typically needed to stream the content at the selected quality.

 

Just as your download speed has a limit, so does their upload speed. And they need to share that between millions of people watching videos. So they'll generally be limiting bandwidth for each user to the minimum possible.

[Crunchy Dragon]

9 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

YouTube is a streaming platform, not a download platform. There's no reason for them to provide more bandwidth to a single connection than is typically needed to stream the content at the selected quality.

 

Just as your download speed has a limit, so does their upload speed. And they need to share that between millions of people watching videos. So they'll generally be limiting bandwidth for each user to the minimum possible.

Yup.

 

Downloading from streaming sites is pretty much always slow, no matter how you go about it.

[jaslion]

Seems the plugin isnt tricking the site in proper loading the video and has entered the slow buffer state. Its why desktop ones based on yt-dl work best as they do download at max speed and can multithread