[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPCF Draft/Discussion (MPlayer ContainerFormat)

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Friday 07 February 2003 13:04, michael c wrote:
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> By the way, how well does the format handle files larger than 4GB right
> now? I think for the file format to be really universal, there should not
> be any kind of limitation like this.
>
> If >4GB is not supported yet, I guess you could achieve them by either
> creating <=4GB blocks in the file, and all 32bit positions in this block
> are relative to its beginning... or you could use 64bit integers for the
> positions (absolute pointers aren't used much anyways, are they?)
> For the index - using my previous proposal to put them into streams - i
> guess you could have two different types ("IX32" and "IX64"?) in this case,
> depending on whether the file is <= or > 4GB (using 32bit or 64bit
> numbers).
please read at least the first page of mpcf.txt
"Extendible
	no limit for the possible values for all fields (using universal vlc)"

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Michael