[MPlayer-users] Splitting an avi file over 4Gb in size using mencoder

[Steven Ellis]

I just noticed that there was a patch to support this.
Has this or something similar been applied to the main
source code tree?

I found the details at

http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/mplayer-dev-eng/2003-05/msg00001.html

--- Steven Ellis <pinguellis at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
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> I have been tweaking ffmpegrec from the nvrec tools
> to
> produce higher quality mjpeg captures, and this has
> resulting in a 6Gb file being produced for a recent
> 65
> minute capture. 
> 
> Now I usually split the file up around advert breaks
> before editing to assist managability, and I usually
> write a quick script around mencode to do this
> 
> eg
> 
> mencoder -vc copy -ac copy -ss 5:10 -endpos 11:20 -o
> fred_1.avi fred.avi
> 
> 1. MPlayer/Mencoder can't read the index off the 6Gb
> avi file. I can fix this using -idx but it takes an
> age to scan such a large file
> 
> 2. I can watch and split the file upto the 4Gb mark
> but no later
> 
> 3. The time display in MPlayer is correct, it shows
> 1:05 for the file time.
> 
> Any tips on how I can extract the last part of the
> file so I can edit it down and re-encode to a much
> more compressed format.
> 
> Steve
> 
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