[MPlayer-users] Lavc under windows??

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 07:23:47PM +0800, Ross Fawcett wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 6:44 pm, JJ2Dogs wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi.
> > I encoded an movie with lavc mpeg4. It has about 3,8Gb and I can playit in
> > linux, but can´t play it in windows?? Any ideas??
> > THX..
> 
> whats the problem?
> can you read the file? i mean i thought doze filesystems had a max filesize of 
> 2gb. wether thats fixed on newer versions of ntfs i dont know, but i know smb 
> limits it to 2gb as does samba.
> 
> or is it that you can read the file but the decoder cant handle it, maybe try 
> installing the ffdshow codecs.
> http://www.ligh.de/software/mirrors.phtml

MEncoder does not support odml indices and thus will not produce avi
files readable by windows apps if the file size is over 2 gig. Either
make a smaller file, or submit a patch to add odml support. :)

Rich