[RESOLVED] Cannot download from Springboard player

[theWallflower]

Hi, first time poster, long time user. I am trying to download videos from http://spoonyexperiment.com/ who uses a new Springboard player. He's hosted by blip.tv. Every time I try and download it, it says the file size is 2,048 MB (2 gigs), which can't possibly be right for a 10 minute 240p video. I've been using the Free Download Manager and the browser built-in (Firefox) and the behavior seems consistent.

This looks like a bug to me, but I thought I'd bring it up here, just in case I'm missing something.

[Giorgio Maone]

It's not a FlashGot bug, but the server itself (as can be seen by sniffing the HTTP traffic) which is reporting 2GB as the content length for any FLV response
I suppose that if you let it download it will eventually stop at the correct size, but I did not try.

[theWallflower]

It didn't, it continued far beyond the end of the actual file, until it got some kind of server timeout. The end result was not playable.

[Giorgio Maone]

It didn't, it continued far beyond the end of the actual file, until it got some kind of server timeout. The end result was not playable.

When I tried to manually stop it at 5MB or so, it was playable for me through VLC.

[theWallflower]

Yes, this appeared to work. I switched out of using FreeDownloadManager, which considers it incomplete and hides it, and used Firefox's and it seemed to work fine. The video played fine and was the right size.

[therube]

I'll just chime in, the first clip, Part 1 – Paranormal Activity 4 came down (slowly, I must say, 1:02:07, 148 KB/s) at 566,031,198 bytes, is complete & plays just fine.

(The very end is a howl.)