Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 months agoIf you’ve ever used yt-dl, you’ll know that YT vids are all split into multiple files.
Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 months agoIf you’ve ever used yt-dl, you’ll know that YT vids are all split into multiple files.
SaltySalamander@fedia.io 3 months ago
No, they're not split. Each one of those results you get from yt-dlp is a different version of the same video. I.e. different resolutions, different codecs. Some of them are the audio, some of them are the video, but they're not split.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They are also that.
whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That may be to speed up the download using multiple connections. Other downloaders do it on other sites as well, doesn’t mean the files are split on the server.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean, you can sit here and make up a bunch of different reasons, but the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.