For files that are bigger than around 2gb, when downloading the full file won't finish and only d9wn loads about 60% of the file.

When watching these files, I get an error message around 60% through and no more of the video is available.

I am using a s10+ with the r325 gear vr.

    Personally, I downloaded all the videos that interest me (more than 1500) and I did not encounter any problem.

    Try to use a download manager (personal, I use IDM).

    @Rakly3 You guys might want to check this out. I've never had issues before with failed downloads, but just had one fail w/out using VPN and tried it again w/ VPN but also failed. The new "Time Stop" SLR Original.

      Download managers deal with parallel download streams much better. The network device buffer can get clogged when trying to download these sequential. You're downloading our files as if they were streaming video. If you've ever used torrents you'll probably know what I'm talking about.

      In simple terms, when your browser tries to process the download sequentially it has to keep the data packets it receives from the parallel download streams buffered until it can write it away. When the buffer is full of data that can't be written away sequentially, the download fails or results in incomplete files. where there are gaps in the file. The system stills commits storage space to those gaps so they can look as if you downloaded them in full.

      Especially mobile devices will run into this issue.

      Would I be better downloading on a PC rather than phone?

        Mikeymay
        Yes. But this sometimes happens on PC browsers too. The larger the (media) file the higher the chance of running into this issue becomes also.

        Mikeymay

        For files that are bigger than around 2gb, when downloading the full file won't finish and only d9wn loads about 60% of the file. I am using a s10+

        Strange you would have this with every file over 2GB. Are you perhaps downloading over mobile data instead of WiFi? Or using a Mobile modem/router?

        Rakly3 without VPN: LA-1 and with VPN: Miami-2

        For myself- it was the only file downloading in both cases.

        I'm doing some tests with the Timestop video 6K on android.
        Chrome Browser is a no-go straight off the bat.

        Downloading with Brave Browser worked up to a point. What immediately caught my eye (I don't use phones a lot) is that the cache is eaten up pretty fast. I'm downloading to a blank SD card of 32GB and the internal phone storage is 16GB of which about 12GB is already in use. The problem might be limited cache space. As soon the phone's internal storage was full with only 100MB left, the download stopped.


        For PC depending on what apps/browser/OS you are using you can google how to increase the cache or even location.
        increase Google Chrome cache
        increase windows virtual memory