CaptPeachfuzz Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 Hello…. I’m trying to download theme videos and it appears to be very slow with lots of (404) and other errors today. Is the server down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icyfrog Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 (edited) I have the same problem Edited October 3, 2021 by Icyfrog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 Game theme videos? In which case we do not provide those, they usually come from emumovies, are you sure its us and not them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptPeachfuzz Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 4 minutes ago, neil9000 said: Game theme videos? In which case we do not provide those, they usually come from emumovies, are you sure its us and not them? Well, using the download platform video wizard, it populates with mostly community developed themes. Downloading those today has been excruciatingly slow from the Forum downloads section. The wizard just reports errors after 20+ minutes of no progress. I opted to switch to downloading game videos from emumovies and I’m stuck on confirming metadata (which comes from Launchbox). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 6 minutes ago, CaptPeachfuzz said: Well, using the download platform video wizard, it populates with mostly community developed themes. Downloading those today has been excruciatingly slow from the Forum downloads section. The wizard just reports errors after 20+ minutes of no progress. I opted to switch to downloading game videos from emumovies and I’m stuck on confirming metadata (which comes from Launchbox). OK thanks, this is why we ask for specifics, much more helpful, ill pass it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptPeachfuzz Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 1 minute ago, neil9000 said: OK thanks, this is why we ask for specifics, much more helpful, ill pass it on. No problem. Happy to help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptPeachfuzz Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, CaptPeachfuzz said: No problem. Happy to help! Ok…. When I switched to downloading the videos from EmuMovies, I am now getting “An exception occurred during a WebClient request.” errors. Downloading is incredibly slow (10 videos over two hours with two errors). These are downloads though Launchbox. Downloading directly from EmuMovies shows a 600 KB/s rate. Edited October 3, 2021 by CaptPeachfuzz Added additional details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptPeachfuzz Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 Hi, I just wanted to report that the slowness I was seeing yesterday has been resolved. I was finally able to download the theme videos. Instead of taking hours, it took less than a minute. I’m going back and downloading game videos now and it’s going much faster with no reported errors. it’s probably been requested already, but it would be great to have the option to show more detailed progress on downloads (download speed, numerical representation of data downloaded, file name and location). That would make it easier to identify problems and make decisions on whether to wait for servers to come back online or gut it out. The metadata/media download is such a huge piece of the system and servers generally are increasingly having problems staying online with power outages, DOS attacks, etc. I’ve also found there are times when it’s better to cancel and restart a download. If you start it when the site is unstable or down, and the site subsequently comes back up, you get better download progress by cancelling and restarting (even if you sacrifice by having to re-download some of the same files again). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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