diff --git a/configs/vae_magvit_v2/train/16x128x128_pixabay_8_GPU_pipeline.py b/configs/vae_magvit_v2/train/16x128x128_pixabay_8_GPU_pipeline.py
index dab0c98..b356c46 100644
--- a/configs/vae_magvit_v2/train/16x128x128_pixabay_8_GPU_pipeline.py
+++ b/configs/vae_magvit_v2/train/16x128x128_pixabay_8_GPU_pipeline.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ discriminator_loss_type="non-saturating"
 generator_loss_type="non-saturating"
 # discriminator_loss_type="hinge"
 # generator_loss_type="hinge"
-discriminator_start = 50000 # 50000 NOTE: change to correct val, debug use -1 for now
+discriminator_start = 100 # 8k data / (8*32) = 31 steps per epoch, use around 3 epochs
 gradient_penalty_loss_weight = None # 10 # SCH: MAGVIT uses 10, opensora plan doesn't use
 ema_decay = 0.999  # ema decay factor for generator
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ magvit uses about # samples (K) * epochs ~ 2-5 K,  num_frames = 4, reso = 128
 
 epochs = 200
 log_every = 1
-ckpt_every = 1000
+ckpt_every = 50
 load = None
 
 batch_size = 32
diff --git a/opensora/models/vae/lpips.py b/opensora/models/vae/lpips.py
index 3dde500..b22cd0d 100644
--- a/opensora/models/vae/lpips.py
+++ b/opensora/models/vae/lpips.py
@@ -2,7 +2,48 @@ import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 from torchvision import models
 from collections import namedtuple
-from taming.util import get_ckpt_path
+import os, hashlib
+import requests
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+URL_MAP = {
+    "vgg_lpips": "https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/f/607503859c864bc1b30b/?dl=1"
+}
+
+CKPT_MAP = {
+    "vgg_lpips": "vgg.pth"
+}
+
+MD5_MAP = {
+    "vgg_lpips": "d507d7349b931f0638a25a48a722f98a"
+}
+
+def md5_hash(path):
+    with open(path, "rb") as f:
+        content = f.read()
+    return hashlib.md5(content).hexdigest()
+
+def download(url, local_path, chunk_size=1024):
+    os.makedirs(os.path.split(local_path)[0], exist_ok=True)
+    with requests.get(url, stream=True) as r:
+        total_size = int(r.headers.get("content-length", 0))
+        with tqdm(total=total_size, unit="B", unit_scale=True) as pbar:
+            with open(local_path, "wb") as f:
+                for data in r.iter_content(chunk_size=chunk_size):
+                    if data:
+                        f.write(data)
+                        pbar.update(chunk_size)
+
+def get_ckpt_path(name, root, check=False):
+    assert name in URL_MAP
+    path = os.path.join(root, CKPT_MAP[name])
+    if not os.path.exists(path) or (check and not md5_hash(path) == MD5_MAP[name]):
+        print("Downloading {} model from {} to {}".format(name, URL_MAP[name], path))
+        download(URL_MAP[name], path)
+        md5 = md5_hash(path)
+        assert md5 == MD5_MAP[name], md5
+    return path
+
 
 
 class LPIPS(nn.Module):
diff --git a/opensora/models/vae/vae_3d_v2.py b/opensora/models/vae/vae_3d_v2.py
index 39e687a..628c013 100644
--- a/opensora/models/vae/vae_3d_v2.py
+++ b/opensora/models/vae/vae_3d_v2.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from einops import rearrange, repeat, pack, unpack
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 import torchvision
 from torchvision.models import VGG16_Weights
-from taming.modules.losses.lpips import LPIPS # need to pip install https://github.com/CompVis/taming-transformers
+from opensora.models.vae.lpips import LPIPS # need to pip install https://github.com/CompVis/taming-transformers
 from torch import nn
 import math
 import os
diff --git a/scripts/train-vae-v2.py b/scripts/train-vae-v2.py
index 0b19998..0f5993c 100644
--- a/scripts/train-vae-v2.py
+++ b/scripts/train-vae-v2.py
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ def main():
     # 1. args & cfg
     # ======================================================
     cfg = parse_configs(training=True)
-    print(cfg)
     exp_name, exp_dir = create_experiment_workspace(cfg)
     save_training_config(cfg._cfg_dict, exp_dir)
 
@@ -73,6 +72,7 @@ def main():
     if not coordinator.is_master():
         logger = create_logger(None)
     else:
+        print(cfg)
         logger = create_logger(exp_dir)
         logger.info(f"Experiment directory created at {exp_dir}")