From 66aeaac9aa30b5959069ba84e53a5508232deb38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 21:57:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [downloader/curl] Fix progress reporting

Bug in 8c53322cda75394a8d551dde20b2529ee5ad6e89
Closes #6490
---
 yt_dlp/downloader/external.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/downloader/external.py b/yt_dlp/downloader/external.py
index 5f54017a8..ee130c827 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/downloader/external.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/downloader/external.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ def _call_downloader(self, tmpfilename, info_dict):
         return 0
 
     def _call_process(self, cmd, info_dict):
-        return Popen.run(cmd, text=True, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+        return Popen.run(cmd, text=True, stderr=subprocess.PIPE if self._CAPTURE_STDERR else None)
 
 
 class CurlFD(ExternalFD):