7.3.5 Slow Aggregating

[spiffypro...@gmail.com]

Hi There,

I'm currently using the latest version of Firefox, and for some reason its take 3 to 4 hours or longer to aggregate a 45 minute long video. Any suggestions on how to speed this up or a setting to change it all together? I have a ton of videos I'm trying to download and if its going to take that long or longer to download them its going to take forever. Thanks in advance for the help

[Wild Willy]

I hadn't seen this post when I answered you over here.  So I'll repeat my answer here:

Yes, there are numerous posts in this group in which MIG explains how buying a license speeds up aggregating.  Before I got a license, I routinely saw aggregation take 12 hours or more.  So be grateful it's only 3 hours for you.  Or . . . you could buy a license.  It's a pittance for a lifetime license & your aggregating, should you need it & it's not needed all the time, would speed up by a factor of 100s.  This product is well worth it.

[Umair Ahmed]

I would suggest to buy their license or try other similar plugins which do the same for free and see whether those work out for you.

For me at least, the price is very expensive, it is almost equivalent to my food expense for a full month. A person can even live in that amount for a full month in my country. Thus, today I searched and found a free alternative for my needs.

[Eric Reed]

What was the free alternative that you found?

How has it been working for you over the past few months?

Thank you for your help!

[Umair Ahmed]

I found ant downloader. Though it doesn't have a good interface as vhd, the aggregation is instantaneous. Best of all, no watermarks. Apparently interface isn't a priority for the dev team. They are busy developing mac and linux versions of the plugin's companion app.

[bobbit...@gmail.com]

It's ridiculously slow.  A 300mb video that takes a few minutes to download takes 1.5 hours to "aggregate."  Something that was nearly instant with FlashGot (which unfortunately doesn't work with FF quantum.)

So the explanation is that there's an intentional delay loop for free users to slow things down?  Or is the free version mining for bit coins with my CPU?  I think it's unprecedented to have a free version intentional slow down - can someone point to another free version of something that does that?  Most of the time, features are missing, or perhaps the file size is capped.  This is just crippleware.

[Umair Ahmed]

Essentially it is encoding the watermark in the video, quite similar to what happens when you edit a video and save it. As this happens without the usual optimization and acceleration from the gpu etc., this becomes a very slow process.

The paid version simply skips this step. Aggregation as they call it is essentially piecing together all the video chunks downloaded, nothing fancy. Serves more or less like moving the fragments to the destination file.

[mig]

Good explanations, thanks !