i'm guessing this is just a malicious bot but in case someone legit is trying to download videos from peertube using ffmpeg please don't, use the download link on the video. the server will remux it for you and it uses a lot less bandwidth. i've been IP-banning anyone downloading videos with ffmpeg.
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with the current setup, i expect each user to draw 10-20Mbps at most. if I see one IP address drawing 100Mbps you'll get a ban.
if you are trying to download a lot of stuff, use the download link if you are anonymous, use the account export feature if it's your own stuff. if you have a legit reason to need large amounts of data, please contact me directly.
@jcolp i might have a cd burner still
@scanlime That's just for downloading from Peertube? I don't particularly care about abusing YouTube with yt-dlp, but if it's doing some clever alternative URL stuff to download pieces from Peertube somehow, that would surprise and offend me.
@MaddieM4 yt-dlp does have an entire code module that is specific to peertube, and they decided to download the chunks with a spoofed UA instead of using the download link
Also, please don't use yt-dlp if you can avoid it. They have the same problem as ffmpeg (relentless use of many concurrent connections) but they also spoof the user agent, *and* they have a big hardcoded list of peertube instances in their code.