Backport of "cerbero: Speed up downloads on Windows drastically" into 1.20 (!1020) · Merge requests · GStreamer / cerbero · GitLab

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Tim-Philipp Müller requested to merge tpm/cerbero:backport-mr-1005-into-1.20-speed-up-invoke-webrequest into 1.20 Nov 15, 2022

Backport of !1005 (merged) "cerbero: Speed up downloads on Windows drastically".

Commits:

7efcbe2a cerbero: Speed up downloads on Windows drastically
64cd4c51 cerbero: Return an error when download fails on powershell (from !1021 (merged))
735bcb4f utils: Add retry logic in shell.download (from !972 (merged))

Edited Nov 17, 2022 by Tim-Philipp Müller