Parallelize the segment downloads?

[Waffleboy]

Just wondering if there's a way to fetch the video segments in parallel? Think its going 1 by 1 now right now which is quite slow for large files

[emarsden]

This is not currently implemented. It's a common feature in other downloaders, but I am a little concerned that content servers will one day (it would be trivial to do so) detect access patterns that are very different from a normal web client and block the corresponding clients. It does make downloads slower, but remains supportable in my experience. I keep this issue open as a wishlist item, however.