emarsden
Parallelize the segment downloads?
Just wondering if there's a way to fetch the video segments in parallel? Think its going 1 by 1 now right now which is quite slow for large files
This is not currently implemented. It's a common feature in other downloaders, but I am a little concerned that content servers will one day (it would be trivial to do so) detect access patterns that are very different from a normal web client and block the corresponding clients. It does make downloads slower, but remains supportable in my experience. I keep this issue open as a wishlist item, however.
This is not currently implemented. It's a common feature in other downloaders, but I am a little concerned that content servers will one day (it would be trivial to do so) detect access patterns that are very different from a normal web client and block the corresponding clients. It does make downloads slower, but remains supportable in my experience. I keep this issue open as a wishlist item, however.
@emarsden That's a fair point! However, it's worth noting that dash-mpd-cli currently downloads all audio segments first and then all video segments. A normal client would download the corresponding audio and video segments simultaneously. Thus, currently, dash-mpd-cli doesn't use the access pattern of a normal client anyway. I'm pretty sure that providing an option for multiple download threads for all segments could still be a beneficial feature for many users who want to trade safety for speed.
wow this is a pretty major omission, jesus. any serious DASH implementation MUST support threaded downloads, its really not an option because many servers intentionally throttle single threads
