My script backs up certain video channels. Mostly the download speed is fine... but sometimes a video gets downloaded very slowly... and I have the option of either waiting for many hours until the video is finished... or I press Ctrl+C and run my script again.

But... I don't want to stop my whole script as Ctrl+C causes: "ERROR: Interrupted by user".

I want to interrupt that slow video only... so that youtube-dl retries to download that video "--retries" times before going to the next video in the list.

What key-combination should I use to interrupt the slow video-download only?

Second question: "--limit-rate" limits the download speed... Is there an option that measures the download speed... and when it's below a certain threshold for a set amount of seconds, the download gets interrupted and retried?

Torrent clients have the "re-announce" option to reestablish a faster connection... Does youtube-dl have such an option?

Tips are welcome.

Thanks,
Cheers,
user1366177

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