Downloads consistently stall when including videos

[dbyler]

Overview

I've had successful photos-only downloads running icloud_photos_downloader via Docker on my Mac, but every time I try to include videos, it stalls within a couple minutes.

This command works for me:

docker run -it --rm --name icloudpd -v /Volumes/MyDrive/Photos/data:/data -e TZ=America/Los_Angeles icloudpd/icloudpd:latest icloudpd --directory /data --username xxxxx@xxxxx.com --watch-with-interval 3600 --skip-videos --auto-delete

However, when I remove the --skip-videos flag, the download invariably stalls after a couple minutes.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Docker Desktop for Mac (I'm running Docker 4.27.2 on macOS 14.1 on a M1 machine)
2. Run the shell command docker run -it --rm --name icloudpd -v /Volumes/MyDrive/Photos/data:/data -e TZ=America/Los_Angeles icloudpd/icloudpd:latest icloudpd --directory /data --username xxxxx@xxxxx.com --watch-with-interval 3600 --auto-delete
3. Watch and wait

Expected Behavior

The full download executes successfully

Actual Behavior

icloudpd usually manages to fetch a couple videos before stalling.

You can see three separate attempts in this screenshot, with Little Snitch showing the dropouts. The downloads don't restart.

[tsetsko]

I have the same issue - seems to cannot debug it and there is no pattern other than it stops at videos but it is at random intervals.

[AndreyNikiforov]

Does the size of the video matter? I wonder if large videos are more prone to stalling... Just guessing at this point as I never experienced such behavior and cannot repro.

[tsetsko]

@AndreyNikiforov I will be able to provide more information later today

[dbyler]

FWIW I'm able to use the compiled binary successfully with videos. No idea why Docker wasn't working but that was an effective workaround for me.

[tsetsko]

@AndreyNikiforov I guess this might help:
Stuck at: "2024-04-10 23:02:37 DEBUG Downloading /data/2023/11/30/IMG_0703.MOV..."
I went on iCloud and checked the video is 7.2 GB (18 min video at 4k)

@dbyler what do you do with the compiled binary - how do you run that?

[dbyler]

Download the binary, make it executable (e.g. chmod +x icloudpd-1.17.3-macos-amd64), and run (e.g. ./icloudpd-1.17.3-macos-amd64)