[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/4] ytdl: access module for YoutubeDL

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le tiistaina 22. syyskuuta 2020, 11.23.21 EEST Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> I would appreciate a small measurement of time being spent when ytdl is
> loaded and fails to parse the url.

A few hundreds of milliseconds, in my experience:
# time -p share/ytdl-extract.py http://localhost/

> If it's too slow, what about keeping the ytdl process alive (and waiting for
> requests) while vlc is alive ?

I did some quick benchmarks, but reusing the Python interpreter saved less 
than 1%, and reusing the YoutubeDL object was below measurement error.

So no.

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