[MPlayer-users] AVIs > 2gigs

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Chris Frey wrote:

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

Hey, how did you manage to do this? For me, mencoder simple segfaults
(or exits with an error, I don't remember) on 2G boundary.

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Vladimir