Umm well ... I kind-of agree, kind-of disagree. File-size OUGHT to be a non-issue, especially now that we're in the 64-bit era, so, for that much I do agree with you. But file-size nevertheless IS an issue, especially for people with something-or-other-different set-ups. Although that makes those people a little bit less than ideally enlightened about their computers, still, I seek to be as one with the less enlightened masses.thatsprettyhot wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:53 pm Whoa, whoa... I played this with VLC 2.2.0-git-20140609-1238 Weatherwax. I play the 10 Gig movies with it, and the 20 Gig movies also - I think I've played even bigger media files with it - and I will until I run into a problem, then I upgrade to the next version that works. And never update if it works.
I think even mentioning the concept of file-sizes or file-systems should have died when we switched to 64-bit operating systems - they should make no difference whatsoever. And I'm still running a 6-year old rig with Windows 7 that is probably worth $50. Either you're running a year 2000 rig or something is seriously wrong in your OS and you should reinstall it or buy a new PC (any PC, really).
Further, I totally disagree that a 20-Gigabyte movie will play adequately on VLC with a "standard" computer. You'll have to know a lot more about system settings than merely plug-in-and-hit-play if you want that situation to work. Dedicating system resources, turning off background processes, saving the file in contiguous units or having some kind of more rapid data-retrieval method (such as an SSD rather than a plain ol' HD; frankly, I utterly totally highly recommend an SSD for its speed, and I do run with one usually). Those things aren't all totally high-tech; some are rather simple to explain; but, I think, they aren't "standard" for most users. They're new for most users, not the thing the users are already using. Many (most?) users will be already-problematic.
I accept the accusation, that the "eternal struggle and hardships" are things that "you bring upon yourself." For I seek out the already-problematic. That's because I run my Mega-download collection, so I want to find ways it might not work. I can't say that I pro-actively seek problems, but I also don't pro-actively avoid them. I don't really go out of my way to find them; but I also don't REQUIRE myself to be perfectly plain-old buttoned-down. Instead of being plain-old buttoned-down, I allow myself the indulgence of having weird set-ups whenever they just happen to come about. So, by inherent assumption (although not necessarily by deliberate action) I'm in a never-ending quest to try to identify potential problems and then to try to learn how to accommodate them. It's not that I NEED or WANT to run on this or that type of bad, archaic, or otherwise problematic computer set-up. It's rather, that I ALLOW myself that set-up if it happens to be the currently easiest or most-likely set-up, because then I am better able to tinker with whatever issues someone ELSE might have to tinker with. I don't mean to claim that I am a fully-fledged trouble-shooter. I just mean, I hope to catch a problem by random chance every now and again, and I hope to be able to fix it; and I hope to catch more of them than most people would hope to catch.
(Maybe, you might reply, you could damn well catch those problems on your own without having to trouble the board about them? Well, uh, yeah, my bad, thanks for your indulgence. But it did help to send up the notification, whereby I got some useful responses.)
Fair enough. :) Definitely a true statement.thatsprettyhot wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:53 pm I'm further worried that you're moving or your downloads are moving thru several cellular hotspots or services? Any kind of modern hardwired internet connection would just remove all of this :p
Actually, I've got all that. And, IF I USE IT, then everything does indeed come around just fine. I've succeeded in downloading this file, but I first failed with it a few times and threw up a few flags to see if the mention would garner other responses. It did.thatsprettyhot wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:53 pm While I appreciate all the unnecessary eternal struggle and hardships you bring upon yourself, you could just avoid and skip all this by getting a standard PC, a standard OS and a standard hardwired internet connection :p I bet a previously owned PC for $100 would serve you for 5 years of movie/entertainment use.
Thererfore, I'm glad I mentioned my download troubles in this instance. It was indeed something about my procedures (though not my computer or home internet connection themselves). I received a PM suggesting a solution, and indeed there was the problem -- Mega. Mega's download stitching and re-stitching is oddly incomplete, in a manner I'm not fully competent to explain; and yet, in order to address that problem, one would have to have access to the file-chunks which are coming in from Mega. However (as you probably can guess) Mega's encryption lock-outs prevent access to those chunks without also creating tons of other problems. So, I'm unable to solve this problem, without in fact re-directing any cellular-service download so that it entirely abandons the use of Mega. This was valuable knowledge for me, because it retroactively fixed several past issues that other people had been corresponding about. We were able to rectify some older download problems from my collection, by noting the incompatibility between Mega and cellular data services, and suggesting that the one or the other be eliminated from the equation.
Anyway, to resolve what is going on with this particular file -- all's well, the "issue" was with the oddball methods, and not with the file as uploaded or as hosted. I'm able to download successfully by having a "normal" download set-up for my computer. But thanks to my (excessively?) convoluted several first attempts, an interesting kink has been uncovered, and now several other people are able to get out of limbo on some older download attempts. Anyway, ya know, weirdness is valuable in its own right, I think. Conformity is death. Fight da powah.