[MPlayer-users] What file system will let me have a indexed file over 4 gb

[darkshadow at shaw.ca]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:56:31 -0500
D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:44:59PM +0000, darkshadow at shaw.ca wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > I am trying to capture video using from tv then edit out commercials
> > but without a index I can't get rid of the commercials.
> > 
> > I have a 19gb video file that has no index and if I use the command
> > "mencoder recording.avi -vo copy -ao copy -idx" it freezes when the
> > output hits 4gb even and if I just try to watch it with a index
> > "mplayer recording.avi -idx" when I go to the scene at the 4 gb mark
> > it freezes. Watching it without a index works fine all the way
> > through.
> > 
> > 
> > So is there any file system I could use to get rid of these
> > limitation since I heard this is a file system problem. Plus if it
> > requires more then a simple modification to the kernels config
> > instructions would be nice
> 
> This has nothing to do with filesystem; it's a limitation of AVI
> files.
> 
> Rich

I did some searching and found out that there is a avi 2.0 specification that uses 64 bit instead of 32 bit and fixes this problem.

So how do I go about requesting the developers including encoding/decoding of avi 2.0 files

Here is a link to the article I found on this
http://www.puremotion.com/videoediting/reference/technical/2gbfilelimit/