Introduce --http-chunk-size

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / options.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 4c04550444308832862517d881539ebe1b417bfe..7d1bbc02102ec860ab417301f478309fe0c379e0 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -478,6 +478,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         '--no-resize-buffer',
         action='store_true', dest='noresizebuffer', default=False,
         help='Do not automatically adjust the buffer size. By default, the buffer size is automatically resized from an initial value of SIZE.')
+    downloader.add_option(
+        '--http-chunk-size',
+        dest='http_chunk_size', metavar='SIZE', default=None,
+        help='Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP downloading (e.g. 10485760 or 10M) (default is disabled). '
+             'May be useful for bypassing bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver (experimental)')
     downloader.add_option(
         '--test',
         action='store_true', dest='test', default=False,