Help downloading Shauns movie?

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Ok, I’ve tried everything. I’ve tried every download link posted in Shaun’s movie thread, and they all do the same thing: downloads to about 30% then says it’s “completed” when it’s really not. I tried using the download accelerater mentioned in that thread, and it doesn’t help either.

I thought watching it at www.unicycle.tv was working, but that always plays for awhile then suddenly resets back to the begining with the ‘play’ button grayed out.

So, am I doing anything wrong maybe? Some obvious thing I’m missing? I’m going crazy reading about it and not being able to watch the whole movie. (I was able to download some of the first part, but never more then that)

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Try the mirror, maybe? Or using GetRight?

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Are you using IE?
IE sometimes has difficulty downloading large files. A fix is to make sure that your IE cache size is big enough to hold the file.

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Yes I have IE. Were do I go to change the cache size?

Still did the same thing.

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In IE7 it’s in
Tools >> Internet Options >> General tab >> Browsing history section >> Settings button

I don’t recall where it is in IE6. It’s in a similar place under Internet Options.

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Tools > Internet Options > General tab.

Go to the Temporary Internet Files and click on settings. It will show how much you can use, and allow you to set it higher or lower.

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Well there’s a Settings button under the Temperary internet files section, that lets you set the file size of the temperary internet files. Is that it?

It was already set at something like 2000 MBs though…

Thanks.

Edit: Oh okay, thanks Jerrick. Hmm, it was already set at 2100 MBs, so I’ll bump it up to 10,000 and try again I guess…

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Did you try right clicking the link and saving to desktop instead of clicking the link?

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Im uploading it to Megaupload.

That place gives fast downloads. Then Ill just post the link here for you to right click and save it where you want to save to.

The version of the vid I have is the DivX version.

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Didn’t work. The whole thing “downloaded” in about 5 seconds.

I’ve right clicked/save target as, left clicked and done “open”, and left click and “saved”. It all does the same thing.

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try download accelerator?
it downloads differently… i don’t know
if you tried that, did you go to the dowloads file, cuz mine saved it on the desktop and it didn’t work right

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Have you tried going to Tool, Internet options, general. And in the temporary internet files, delete them, and all offline files too?

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Yep, yep, and yep. I’ve tried everything I can think of. Why the heck can’t I download this stinking movie? I can’t even watch it all on unicycle.tv!!

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YSW770MU

Theres the Megaupload link. Hopefully you can download it and watch it with that.

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Sorry for dropping out there. The Internet went out (again). It has been unreliable since the wind storm.

I was able to download the video from the original link using the last freeware version of Net Transport. It works well for me. It got the entire file even with a couple of interruptions due to dead Internet. It can pause and resume downloads and can do multiple threads to speed up the download.

Net Transport can also download some streaming audio and video formats. Handy little downloader program.

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Thanks, I’ll try Net Transport next then.

Nope, didn’t work, it does the same exact thing. Only the first 5 minutes or so downloaded.

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It worked great! Thanks! Now I can go through life knowing I didn’t miss out on anything. :slight_smile: :roll_eyes:

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Woot!
Net Transport is quite handy for downloading larger files and also for capturing some streaming audio/video formats.

I had my own bad luck with downloading the video. The power went out, then the cable internet got all flaky. The world was conspiring against me to get it downloaded. I finally got it this morning.

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Is there any way to get it on Quick Time? Every way ive tried uses WMV or some other program that i dont have.

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If you’re on a mac, the google “flip4mac” and install the free codec, then you can play any .wmv file. Also, I think Olarf uploaded a quicktime version here (Shaun Johanneson's MOVIE! - #154 by olarf. unless you want to download the whole thing again though, I suggest the flip4mac thing.