Megavideo time out on DL..

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So I setup a list of megavideo videos to download. Everything works fine, but I 
notice that the last two are only 18k. Try to get a different link from the 
megavideo website and I get the 'please wait 34 minutes message"

Damnvideo should detect this error msg and hold the videos it can't download in 
a queue. Ideal, it would let us set an option to try again after ___ mins.  
Damnvideo should also keep a list of these videos that failed to properly 
download across restarts.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by csheph...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2010 at 11:18

[GoogleCodeExporter]

So this would be because of the video watching limit that megavideo has? Do you 
know what exactly is the limit (when does it kick in), and could you attach the 
.log (or at least the list of videos you tried to download)?

(Also it's DamnVid, not Damnvideo)

Original comment by windypo...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2010 at 11:27

• Added labels: Component-Logic, Component-Module, OpSys-All, Priority-Low, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Its got a 72 minutes limits of time on site then a 54 minute delay to you can 
watch again. I believe that the 72 minute countdown starts when you press play 
on a video.  My mistake could have been pressing play to see if the file link 
was real, then copying the link over to DamnVid. I reset the program cause I 
though was a downloading error, think the log is gone. 

I just notice that if yo hit the + next to the video in the history window the 
video gets readded. Perhaps splitting the history into a completed and not 
completed section for easier ways to readd videos?

Original comment by csheph...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2010 at 12:26

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That's going to be tough if it's time-based, because it would require knowing 
each video's time and adding it up, which the module architecture currently 
can't really do. I'll see if I can come up with something, but don't expect 
anything soon... :(

As for the history, yes, the + is for re-adding. To open the video, just click 
its name~
Maybe it should open the locally converted file instead though? That's a cool 
idea.

Original comment by windypo...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2010 at 2:20

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I don't think its related to time of videos, but total time, play + pause of 
the video. 

I think the bigger issues would be for Damnvid to tell you the size of the 
video before download(pending - 90 megs, or something similar), then compare 
the final size with that size. That way we can get a warning that the video had 
failed to download successfully and an option to try again. Also, resume video 
download or start fresh would be nice. Hate to be 90% done downloading a video 
and then have to start new. 

The timeout is annoying, but let us know when the video failed would make me 
happy, hopefully easier to put in and would be something that would be useful 
on any video download.  

Original comment by csheph...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2010 at 11:30

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Well, resumable downloads are already done in trunk~ They're not really 
"resumable" to say the truth, they just freeze when the connection is cut, and 
they resume when the connection is back. It shouldn't be too hard to add a size 
check to it.

Original comment by windypo...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2010 at 4:47