Downloading Picasa videos only gives a one frame thumbnail of the video

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. googole picasa get ~/PicasaDownload
2. Check results and video file is only 14kb a one frame thumbnail of the 
video. In this case it was an AVI file that should be ~10MB. The file name is 
the correct one, but all the content is stripped out.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It would be nice to get: (In descending order of niceness) 
  1) the whole video full sized and same format video that had been uploaded
  2) If not that, the full down-sampled video that appears on PicasaWeb
  3) If neither of these, then don't make the attempt at download, or provide an error or report at the end of the process saying that you DONT have the videos you wan't, so you can not depend on them being there.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? What
version of gdata-python-client (aka python-gdata)?
google 0.9.5, Ubuntu 10

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by otheracc...@zivan.com on 27 Jul 2010 at 1:56

• Merged into: #125

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Unfortunately, Picasa transcodes all videos and will only make mp4 or flv 
downloads available. Fortunately, 0.9.9 will let you do number 2

Original comment by tom.h.mi...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2010 at 10:10

• Changed state: Duplicate