# Make progressive file downloadable throught the player

**URL:** <https://community.bitmovin.com/t/make-progressive-file-downloadable-throught-the-player/1331>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 29, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/make-progressive-file-downloadable-throught-the-player/1331 "2022-09-29T06:32:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![peter.vanvogelpoel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@peter.vanvogelpoel](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/peter.vanvogelpoel)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/make-progressive-file-downloadable-throught-the-player/1331/1 "2022-09-29T06:32:56Z")

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Is there a way to make a progressive file downloadable throught the player?

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**Author:** ![albertobitmovin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.bitmovin.com/albertobitmovin/32/256_2.png) [@albertobitmovin](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/albertobitmovin)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 8:15am UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/make-progressive-file-downloadable-throught-the-player/1331/2 "2022-09-29T08:15:59Z")

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Hi Peter,

Thanks for asking in the community. What SDK/platform are you targeting? Note that our mobile SDK’s allow downloading content for offline playback, as per:

- [Mobile SKDs: Control and Customize Offline Playback for Mobile SDKs](https://bitmovin.com/offline-playback-mobile-sdks/)
- [Bitmovin Docs - Player Tutorials | Offline Playback with the Bitmovin iOS SDK](https://bitmovin.com/docs/player/tutorials/offline-playback-with-the-bitmovin-ios-sdk)
- [Bitmovin Docs - Player Tutorials | Offline playback with the Bitmovin Android SDK](https://bitmovin.com/docs/player/tutorials/offline-playback-with-the-bitmovin-android-sdk)

Otherwise, if what you’re looking for is the possibility to leverage a UI button or API call (eg: on Web SDK) to download a progressive file (eg: mp4) to the viewer’s device for later playback via any local player (not necessarily Bitmovin), that would be a feature request which I’d suggest raising here in order to ensure visibility from our Product team: [Requests - Bitmovin Community](https://community.bitmovin.com/c/requests/14)

As a final note, we’ve recently released this tool which you may find helpful for working with progressive MP4 files: [Introducing the Bitmovin MP4Inspector Chrome Extension | Bitmovin](https://bitmovin.com/mp4inspector/)

Best regards,  
Alberto