[MPlayer-users] Fast-forward/rewind in large mpeg

[The Wanderer]

Grant Totten wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've done some searching around, but I can't find any mention of this
>  problem.
> 
> I've got a bunch of mpeg-2 video files, and I've found that for files
> larger than a certain size, fast-forward and rewind don't work.  For
> files smaller than that "boundary" size, forward/rewind/jump seems
> to work fine.  For example, I can fast-forward around in a file of
> 2,065,585,760 bytes, but not one of 2,170,549,510 bytes.
> 
> I'm using the CVS version of mplayer as of about a month ago.  Would
> anyone know if this is a common problem?

MPlayer does not cleanly support files larger than 2GB. I didn't know
for certain whether or not this happened with anything other than AVI
files, where the problem is a lack of OpenDML support, but if certain
assumptions were made in the right parts of the code it's entirely
possible that the problem would be universal.

It is, indeed, a common problem, brought up on this list at least every
few months - but unfortunately as far as I know there's little to be
done about it.

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       The Wanderer

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