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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.

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.

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.

theWallflower wrote: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.

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.

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.)