[MPlayer-users] AVIs > 2gigs

[Wayde Milas]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:58, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> 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.

You need to enable large file support in your glibc. This may also
include compiling everything that relies on glibc against the new glibc.

Most modern distributions (redhat, ect) support this already with a
modern (2.6) kernel. I think. I use gentoo so I'm not exactly sure on
redhat and things.
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