[MPlayer-users] AVIs > 2gigs

[Stefan Sassenberg]

Chris Frey wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I've just encoded a DVD and the resulting AVI is larger than 2 gigs
>(will just fit on 3 700meg CD's).
>
>The problem is that the index doesn't appear to work, and mplayer thinks
>that it is a raw AVI stream.  It plays fine, except it won't seek unless
>I run it with the -idx option.
>
>Is there some limit in the AVI file format that limits AVI's to 2gigs or less?
>  
>
There's a limit of 2GB for an avi. It may seem that your file is 
complete but it probably lacks the end.

Regards

Stefan