video annotation - error loading more than 400 MB

Hi,
I'm trying to set up a video annotation task. I have over 100 video files in varying sizes, and I get the following error message on the prodigy web page (where the annotations should appear) - "ERROR: can't fetch tasks. Make sure the server is running correctly".

I tried changing the number of files in the folder, as well as their sizes, and noticed that it loads them as long as the overall size of the folder is under 400 MB.

My project includes working with the video and corresponding text files simultaneously, so splitting up the videos in order to keep then under 400MB would not be a solution that I could implement. I'd appreciate you help in figuring this out.

Thank you

Welcome to the forum @Gal_R :wave:

If you're using a default audio.manual loader with large files, the conversion to base64 (i.e. encoding of the entire file to a string) might result in performance issues.
See this post for more context and suggestions on how to load large media files to Prodigy:

Thank you very much! I'll try it