I uploaded a sermon in mp3 format. It pays when people listen online. But when people try to download it, it shows "0 meg" file and nothing downloads. It's a 40.3 Mg file!

This is the only sermon out of 28 uploaded with this problem. Any thoughts?

The one in question is:

http://www.heidelbergcatechismproject.com/sermons/?sermon_id=31

has anyone resolved this particular download issue? I was wondering if there was a known fix as my files still will not download. thanks!

Post edited 6:09 pm – 30 April, 2009 by abetterword

when i changed the readfile_sergments calls to readfile, i get an exception upon entering the sermons page:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare readfile() in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/sermon-browser/sb-includes/frontend.php on line 296

I then tried the second suggestion and received no errors, however the file download still finished immediately and said 0 bytes. I think that this may be a filesize issue, as the file i downloaded was 19 mb, but when i spliced a section of that same sermon, 900kb large, then the download worked. so it may be safe to say that it has less to do with the sample rate and more with the filesize and possibly the server configuration.

we may try to record a sermon with a lower bit rate to lower significantly the filesize.

ohh i see i apologize for that. I have made the correction, however still seem to be having the issue. i renamed those two lines to read_file and removed the lines you suggested. It seems that this is a problem in the php, as I posted a link to the file at the same location on a wordpress page, and it downloads fine:

http://www.alliancechristiance…..community/

and here is the link once again to my sermons page:

http://www.alliancechristiance…..s/sermons/

you can see how the download finishes immediately and the file says 0 bytes, while the link on the community page downloads the file correctly. I have left the php changes you suggested in place. Thanks again for all the help!

I as well am experiencing this issue. If I left-click on the download link it opens Windows Media Player which presents a message indicating invalid codecs. If I right-click and select save, it downloads a 0kb file.

Post edited 2:26 am – 11 June, 2009 by aksturgeon
Post edited 2:27 am – 11 June, 2009 by aksturgeon

I'm sure this is probably not the best fix that can be applied but I'm not a php programmer and any future updates will most likely overwrite these changes but I was able to make the download link work by modifying the frontend.php file that's located in the sb-includes folder.

I commented out lines 616 and 617, which are within the function sb_print_url_link(). These are the lines that do the URLencode to the $url variable and the line that renders the download link the page. I basically just hardcoded the path to the location of the sermons directory, the path may be different for anyone else who attempts to make a similar change.

Below are the changes…

//uncomment the next two lines and remove the third line to revert back to the original code base.
//$url = URLencode($url);
//echo ' <a href="'.sb_display_url().sb_query_char().'download&amp;'.$param.'='.$url.'">Download</a>';
echo ' <a href="/wp-content/uploads/sermons/'.$url.'">Download</a>';

abetterword said:

@aksturgeon Thank you so much, this is working!

I'm very glad to hear that it's working for you abetterword.