[MPlayer-users] Largefile support for files > 4 GB?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > > It looks like the playback beyond the 4 GB limit doesn't work. Maybe 
> > > streaming it *could* help but I don't know how to do that. 
> > > Or is it a largefile support probem? Up to which size does largefile
> > > work? Has anybody an idea what else I could try? Please let me know.
> > 
> > no, actually the .avi fileformat hs a 2GB limitation. actually it's 4GB,
> > as you have 32 bit numbers in the header (but some fields use the MSB for
> > flag). there are various unofficial extensions (ugly hacks) to extend this
> > limitation, OpenDML is one of them. mplayer doesn't support these yet.
>  
> Thats a pity. Is there a posibility to get the video and audio streams 
> into mencoder? I don't need to seek in it I only want to convert it to
> a avi < 2GB so the problem would not exist anymore, anyways...

actually 'cat file | mencoder ... -' should do that.
anwyay i've never tested it with >800mb files, so i don'y know.
but in stream (stdin etc) mode the demuxers ignore sizes and uses teh EOF
signal only. so unles syour avi has bugs/error at 1020MB it should play to
the end. of course, no seeking this way...


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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