When I try to update my 14 mb qsvlite with the --update option, it downloads a whopping 190 mb file. How come?

[jqnatividad]

That's because for each platform, ALL the binary variants of qsv are in one zip archive (see #1713).

So even if you're just updating qsvlite (14 mb in qsv 0.124.1), it needs to download the whole archive of the latest version (in this case, 190 mb for qsv-0.125.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip) to extract the qsvlite variant.

And no need to worry about the big archive hanging around, qsvlite --update automatically cleans after itself and deletes the 190 mb file after an update.

[ondohotola]

Would be nice, actually, to have the ZIP hang around, so one doesn’t have to downloads multiple times for every local machine. Could that be added by way of a flag, perhaps?