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Unlike some websites where the video format is completely undetectable by flashgot,
I've found a website where some videos can be captured perfectly, but others are
detected correctly--i.e. the flashgot box appears in the lower right corner--but
when I click on the box and select the media, the progress bar flies from 0 to 100%
in an instant and nothing is downloaded. It doesn't hang, it just "completes" without
doing anything.

Here's an example (yes it's an adult website )

:http://sfico.com/video/27536a72b4eaa0d3 ... id=Lesbian

It looks like a bug in the way FlashGot extrapolates names file names from web pages. Currently there's no max length check, therefore on some pages which use very lengthy titles, or descriptions whose HTML markup hints at a title, a very long file name can be generated.
This adds up to the path of the file to be saved, which on some OSes is constrained to a maximum size (on Windows it's usually 256 bytes).

The movie you pointed me at generates a 248-long file name, which likely exceed the 256 limit when added to your download directory path.

This bug will be fixed in next release, probably by limiting the size of auto-generated file names, e.g. to 32 or 64 characters).

In the meanwhile you can temporarily work-around by setting the flashgot.media.guessName about:config preference to false.

Please check latest development build.