Memory Error when downloading longer videos (about an hour+)

[Kroek]

Bug Description

Downloading longer videos results in a memory error

Actual behavior

the download fails when almost completed, resulting in this error message:

[19]ERROR | 15:31 || Unexpected error during sorting Single Post download;
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "fansly_downloader.py", line 1188, in
File "fansly_downloader.py", line 763, in sort_download
MemoryError

for this video, my computer's memory usage only went up to 60%

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Environment Information

• Operating System: windows
• Fansly Downloader Version: v0.4.1
• Fansly Downloader Type: executable
• Specific creators name: Boba Bitch

User Research

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I have done the following:

• Looked through old GitHub issues
• Read the config.ini options
• Searched on Google

[Avnsx]

How much RAM do you have?

Also before downloading that specific video, when enabling show_downloads, is the file ending printed into console .m3u8 or .mp4?

What post id is it?

Regardless, I do believe you that this is a valid bug. It's because the download_m3u8() function needs an actual binary stream wrapper, so that an entire video stops being held in memory during download and transcoding.

Kinda up to contributors, as this is a open source project and I'm a little fed up with it atm.

The only thing you personally can do is upgrading your RAM capacity to 32 GB+ or asking a friend with more RAM to download and transcode the video for you, or renting a VPS which has more RAM & a GPU installed and run Fansly Downloader on there :)

[Kroek]

I have 16 GB of RAM

it's a .mp4 file

the id is 502723244063731712

that video is 56 minutes long.
I didn't notice it before, but i did successfully download a 2 and a half hour video so maybe it's not just the length?

I wouldn't be surprised if it is some problem with my system, it's nearly 10 years old by now

[Avnsx]

maybe it's not just the length?

Yes there's multiple factors such as the videos Bitrate and Quality, which also influence its total Size.

Unfortunately the way fansly downloader is currently written in version 0.4.1, your hardware capabilities play a huge role.