Size Limit ? But i think it's an other problem ?

[Occitania Football Association]

I am facing issues with downloading these 2 videos here :
https://digitalalps.tv/final-women-occitania-vs-sudtirol_v1031
https://digitalalps.tv/final-occitania-vs-sudtirol-_v1041

I tried the 3 Quality from lowest to highest possible (480x270 and 768x432 and 1280x720) but same problem.
The download starts and goes on until 2.1 GB (for the best quality) but then it gets stuck and won't finish.
I think the overall size of the video is 2.3GB (for the 1st link above) so the download is kinda close to the end.
But then again when i tried to donwload a lower quality, same problem and the size of the file is not so big.

I have space on the hardware, using Firefox and Ubuntu 14.04 (i tried older versions and on Chrome too).
I have been using VDH on the same website and succeeded to download all other videos but the size/length of the files/videos were smaller.
So maybe that's the reason. Maybe there is a size/time of download limit ?

Thanks for helping us :)

[mig]

The only size limit when downloading HLS streams is far beyond a few gigabytes.

I downloaded the first video in its higher resolution, 1280x720, and ended up with a clean 2251212000 bytes video file. Are you sure you waited enough for the download to complete ?

By the way, i didn't know there was such a thing as an Occitanian football team :)

[Occitania Football Association]

Thanks for the answer and good to know that it works for you (i thought it was an error from the website) !
For me, it still doesn't work and i waited long enough for the completion, believe me it's been 2 months i'm trying without success.

The downloading process always resumes/blocks/stops close to the end (always at the same point whatever the quality)
For the 1st video higher resolution (1280x720), in the end i'm having a 2.1 GB (2 147 483 647 bytes) .part file which is impossible to view nor to convert coz it's incomplete and non usable due to lack of info i guess.
I have space on hardware (100 GB of free space).
I seriously tried everything possible (on Windiws, Linux versions, Chrome, Firefox, wireless, with wire, ...).
It's strange that's stopping kinda at the same moment (kinda 5 percent before the end of the video) whatever the resolution.

Any idea ?

My VDH is version 6.0.0 and the settings are :
_Chunked streaming enabled ENABLED
_Prefetch chunks count 4 (i tried with 0 too)
_Concurrent chunk downloads 4 (i tried with 0 too)
HLS streaming
_HLS enabled ENABLED
_Do not show .ts entries in download list ENABLED
_Download HLS streams as M2TS DISABLED

PS :
In deed, there is an Occitan football team with Occitan people and learning Occitan language together
But there is no such word as Occitanian ;)

[mig]

The Chrome version definitely won't work on HLS streams.

You can try enabling "Download HLS streams as M2TS". You will end up with a video file that can be run on some players, like Linux mplayer. You can use the converter to generate a proper MP4 file (conversion is free on Linux).

[Occitania Football Association]

Just tried several times that and i end up with 2 files :
_video.vdh with 5 327 bytes
_video.bin with still 2 147 483 647 bytes :(

So i guess it won't work either like that to have the complete file (2251212000 bytes) ?
Any other solution ?
(It's just to upload on our Youtube Channel)

PS :
And i can't make the decryption works with this command :
node vdh-mask-master/vdh-mask.js video.vdh

It gives me this error :
module.js:328
    throw err;
    ^
Error: Cannot find module 'commander'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:326:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:277:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/boris/Desktop/AOF/videos_europeada/vdh-mask-master/vdh-mask.js:2:15)
    at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:442:10)

[Crono99]

Hi,
Please excuse this interference from a 3rd party. I'm new to VDH, but not computers.
You seem to be having a problem with file sizes.  How is your disk formatted?  If you disk is formatted as FAT32 then there is a limit of 2GB for any file, regardless of where it comes from. This could be your problem.  To handle files greater than 2GB your disk must be formatted either NTFS  (Windows) or X-FAT (Windows and other systems such as Android).  X-FAT is not supported natively by some versions of Windows but you can download the support free from the Microsoft website.
If you decide to re-format your disk remember to back-up all the data first or you will loose it!
Hope that helps.  Good luck.

[mig]

Crono99: good point. That would explain why it is working on my ext4 file system and not on Occitania one.

Occitania: .vdh/.bin files refer to an encryption layer on top of the regular capture stuff. If the lower layer does not work as expected,
they are little chances adding encryption will fix anything.

Regarding the error you get with the decryption program, make sure you ran "npm install" once to solve dependencies like the missing
commander module.

[Occitania Football Association]

Chrono99: i am using only (no dualboot) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with ZFS i guess (zettabyte file system) and i have files bigger than 2GB.
Even though, i also tried on different laptops with Windows (same issue) and with different wireless networks or with wire.
And if i try downloading with VDH the videos i want to on a lower quality/resolution, i'm ending up with the same problem the file hasn't been downloaded completely (5% approx. missing).

Mig: yes, npm wasn't installed so i did and ran that but i end up with the same error.
I don't think the file will be completed though.

[Crono99]

Hi,
OK, sorry that did not help. Having had a similar problem last year on my NAS I wondered, but ZFS has no 'practical' file size limit.
I don't know Ubunto yet but believe it supports the POSIX standards, which implies there could be implemented along the lines of a 'per user' total storage size (likely to be tens of GB) but it may also support the 'users maximum single file size' limit.  If your own 'user' has a limit higher than 2GB does whatever user the download runs under (which might be different) also have this? Sorry but I have no idea whatever how you check or change this.  (I did a lot of reading on POSIX for a work project a few years ago and have vague memories of some of it!)
I'll now go away and keep quiet.  Good luck.

[mig]

On Monday, September 5, 2016 at 8:26:55 AM UTC+2, Occitania Football Association wrote:

Mig: yes, npm wasn't installed so i did and ran that but i end up with the same error.
I don't think the file will be completed though.

File package.json contains:
    "dependencies": {
        "commander": "2.9.0"
    }
This means vdh-mask relies on the commander module version 2.9.0

When you type "npm install", the npm program takes care of downloading the required version of commander. You should end up with a directory node_modules containing the commander sub-directory.

 So you get any error message when you do "npm install" ?

[Occitania Football Association]

Yes i get this error :
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/occitania/package.json'
npm WARN occitania No description
npm WARN occitania No repository field.
npm WARN occitania No README data
npm WARN occitania No license field.

[mig]

Did you install the files to your home directory ? That may not be a good idea.

I suggest you either:

- use git to get your files: "cd; git clone https://github.com/mi-g/vdh-mask.git; cd vdh-mask"

or

- do things manually: "cd; mkdir vdh-mask; cd vdh-mask; wget https://github.com/mi-g/vdh-mask/archive/master.zip; unzip master.zip; rm master.zip"

either way you will end up with a sub-directory /home/occitania/vdh-mask with 4 files: vdh-mask.js, package.json, README.md and .gitignore.

Next type npm install from that directory. You now have a new node_modules sub-directory containing the installed dependencies. You can now safely run node vdh-mask.js --help to see the program options.

[Occitania Football Association]

Thank you that works, i wasn't really trying that because the video.bin has only 2 147 483 647 bytes :(
So i have now the video :) incomplete though as i expected (the last 10 minutes is missing for the 1st link whatever the resolution).

I'm still not satisfied because i don't have the full video - thank you Mig and Chrono99 for answering -
I remain not understanding why VDH doesn't work for that 2 links for me.
Any idea ?