Why are my Real Player videos not downloading properly?
Here’s what the trouble is: You are downloading from sites that only allow you to download a certain amount of bandwidth from their site — per day. These sites, like MegaVideo & MegaUpload for example, only allow you to watch, oh lets say for example, 80 minutes of video per day per IP address. If you watch a video while you are downloading it using the Realplayer download function, you cut that time in half because these sites view your download as TIME, not DATA. If you watch a 60 minute video with an 80 minute time cap and you download it at the same time, you’re only going to get 20 minutes of that video downloaded — which is what you’ve been experiencing. Normally, when a website determines you have received the last bit of data from its servers, it sends your computer a STOP command so your computer will terminate any connections to the website so that the website can use that connection slot to serve another person on the internet. Realplayer doesn’t understand that it’s not g
