[youtube-dl] Download files from youtube.com or other video platforms

rodp said:
Most downloads these days take about 5-6 times repeating the command to get the video and audio to finish downloading.
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On a PC and with the latest yt-dlp I've found that YouTube's format 18 often requires more than the 10 default retries. Fortunately if the download fails after 10 retries it will restart by repeating the command. If I remember I use --retries 50.
 
Having used Qtube in immediate mode to download .m4a from iPlayer raw (so as not to have to wait for the subsequent conversion), I then used a script and ran it in abduco to batch-process the conversion to .mp3 without me having to mind it.

Code: 
ffmpeg -i radio_show.m4a -c:v copy -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 4 radio-show.mp3

Judging from the file timestamps, this took about the same length of time as it would have done being queued with process options
Code: 
-x --audio-format mp3
.

So I'm back to the same question @prpr @/df , if I can do the download manually and convert it manually, why does it bork when put on the process queue?
 
Radio recording conversions being auto-processed are taking a very long time compared with "normal", eg 6 hours for a 30 minute recording (which is about double). Trying to find out why, I ran a top:

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Why are there so many tmenu processes running? Yes, OK, I was doing cli earlier on, and the sessions were timing out, but shouldn't they have terminated? If that's minutes and seconds, it doesn't really add up, and the processing slow-down has been for much longer than that.
 
That's better. I killed all those tmenu processes (the only way I knew how: individually by kill <PID>, and the ffmpeg process has gone up to 90% CPU.

If somebody could explain where the tmenus came from, please?
 
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