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nbojja
nbojja

Reputation: 1655

download large video files to iPhone

I want to download a large video file to Iphone in my app. I used NSURLConnection and saving the file to disk once it completly downloads the video.

As my video is large, it is crashing in middle.

Is there anyway like directly saving the file to disk without keeping it in memory.

Thanks,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 883

Answers (2)

thibaultcha
thibaultcha

Reputation: 1320

Your app crashes because you can't have this much data into your system's memory.

I recently wrote a little and very easy library to do that. It uses NSURLConnection and won't cause your app to crash because the data is directly written to a file while downloading. Also, you can download multiple files at once and many other things...

You can have it here!

Upvotes: 0

Tyler
Tyler

Reputation: 28874

NSURLConnection calls a method you can write called

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data;

which receives the data in smaller chunks. You can save that data to a file as you receive it.

Here is Apple's doc on NSURLConnection, which gives more details.

Also note that you risk app-store rejection if you're retrieving a large amount of data via Edge or 3G, although using wireless is safe: app rejected reason.

Upvotes: 2

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