[MPlayer-users] Large AVI file

[Stephen Davies]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Hans E. Kristiansen wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I have looked into the manual for an answer to this, but my search did not
> come up with any answers:
> 
> I am using the latest xawtv package to record a large file ( using streamer,
> with .avi output, jpeg format and approx. 4.9Gbyte in size ). Sadly enough,
> mplayer only plays around 40% of the file before quitting, which is just
> before the part of the program I really wanted to see.

At least, you'll need to be sure that you've compiled mplayer with
--enable-large-files.  Though I can't say that there might not also be a
problem with reading large AVIs.

Steve