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

[Clemens Wächter]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 02:23:14 +0100
Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> 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...
> 

Well looks like the avi header somehow states that the file ends after 1020
MB. I guess its a variable overflow or something like that. So if I use
-forceidx that is fixed but that does not exceed the 4 GB limit. This value
of 1020 MB is used then. Looks like it at least. Thats why I tried piping 
with -forceidx, hoping that it would throw the file length away (the value of 
the avi header). But unfortunately looks like it doesn't.

Regards

Clemens