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filecxx / FileCentipede

Cross-platform internet upload/download manager for HTTP(S), FTP(S), SSH, magnet-link, BitTorrent, m3u8, ed2k, and online videos. WebDAV client, FTP client, SSH client.
http://filecxx.com
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Slow Download Speed for YouTube #775

Open adlihm opened 4 months ago

adlihm commented 4 months ago

So I'm currently looking for IDM alternative, and this app actually fulfilled all needs from IDM. However, I don't know why if I downloaded a video from YouTube, it only showed 1/6 of the maximum speed I got in IDM. Weirdly, downloading other files shows the correct speed. Any idea why this happened?

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/xbjhifY

filecxx commented 4 months ago

FileCentipede is not a good choice for downloading videos from YouTube, Last time I checked IDM was using its own intermediary HTTP source (https://xxxxserver.com/download?=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxx ) to get YouTube videos instead of extracting videos from the web page.

In the future, I'll add a feature to allow users to set their own intermediary HTTP source for special domains. (decode YouTube cipher signature cannot be directly added to the browser extension, see https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/troubleshooting#prohibited-products)

adlihm commented 4 months ago

Ah... That explained the issue then... Okay. Thank you for enlightening me... 👀👍🏻