[mythtv-users] why do i have a 2 gig limit on avi files
Joe Votour
joevph at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 15 01:41:39 EDT 2005
It could be a few things.
The first is that the particular filetype (like early
AVI, there apparently is a fix on Windows) is
restricted to 2GB.
The second is that the program itself does not support
"large file access". Here's some info on large file
access:
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html
Bascially, you either need to use the proper file
calls (like open64), or compile your program with
special flags. For something that I was developing at
work (playing with DVB streams, which can be quite
large) under Fedora Core 3, I needed to do this,
otherwise I hit the 2GB file limit.
Finally, your filesystem itself might have a 2GB file
limit. This depends mostly on your kernel version it
seems.
-- Joe
--- ffrr <ffrr at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> Michael Gargiullo wrote:
>
> > What file system are you using on the disk. If
> it’s ext2 or ext3 (ext2
> > with journaling) then the file system itself has a
> 2 Gb limit. If so
> > install xfs packages, and convert your video work
> space, and video
> > storage to XFS
> >
> >
> >
>
> I use ext3 and have many files >2 GB, so can't be a
> limitation of ext3...
>
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