Impossible Force Download

[eluser]deltajam[/eluser]
Ugh. I am frustrated. I do not know much about headers, and php streaming ... and the like, so I'm possibly ignorantly frustrated.

Here is my code:

Code:

$data = file_get_contents( base_url() . "media/downloads/movie.mov");
        
$name = 'myphoto.jpg';

force_download($name, $data);

The file is 40mb, and I have some that are in excess of 150mb. At first I was getting a blank page, which was caused by a leading slash in my url. After that change, I get this error:

Code:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8192 bytes)

Does anyone have any suggestions for an average hack like me? My hosting is with iPower (equally frustrating).