yt-dlp --limit-rate switch does not work. mpv limit download speed rate

[KamelittaOida]

yt-dlp -r, --limit-rate RATE           Maximum download rate in bytes per second,
                                e.g. 50K or 4.2M

i'm trying to make yt-dlp -r work but mpv ignores the switch.
--ytdl-raw-options=limit-rate=555555 does nothing.

am i doing something wrong or is it really not supported? ytdl-raw-options=limit-rate=

[Akemi]

ytdl is not used to get/download the content (just metadata, urls, etc), so that option won't do anything. internally mpv uses ffmpeg to get the actual content via the urls extracted by ytdl.

[KamelittaOida]

mpv uses ffmpeg

yea i read that in some of the other threads. so what exactly is ytdl-raw-options for. it seems to accept some but not other switches.

as for my problem, any way of limiting download speed? i read about using http-chunk-size (yt-dlp command) but it doesn't seem to work either (anymore).

[kasper93]

I don't think at this moment there is a way to rate limit. This might change once I get into finishing my http source for mpv, but that kinda stalled some time ago.

[KamelittaOida]

I don't think at this moment there is a way to rate limit.

guess i will have to finally install some bandwidth limiter. there was one i always had in the back of my mind but forgot its name.
nvm it's called netbalancer. (well for Windows 😅)

well ok thanks for the answers <3