[MEncoder-users] problem with big files

[James Thomas Snell]

Yikes! Really? Because I have a number of AVIs I've been using that are well
over 4gb that I've used for DVD creation projects that turned out okay -
guess that means they're not actually AVIs or something.

Glad you posted that info, thanks!

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:49 PM, James Hastings-Trew <jimht at shaw.ca> wrote:

> a a wrote:
> > James Hastings-Trew wrote:
> >
> >
> >> May I ask where these large .avi files originated
> >>
> > from? If there is a
> >
> >> 4Gb limit on the .avi container itself, then whatever
> >>
> > step is making the .avi files that large to begin with
> > would seem to be where the flaw is.
> >
> > As I mentioned in
> > http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mencoder-users/2008-May/008939.html
> >
> > my input files are resided on ext3 filesystem and this
> > is not the cause of problem. The only size related
> > cause of problem that i guess is that, in the encoding
> > process from begining of input file to its end the
> > encoding is being done regularly, until when encoder
> > reaches the 4096M of its input file's size (and not
> > the output file), at this point the encoding cuts. (
> > and at this point the output file's size is about 3.1
> > Mega Bytes.)
> >
> > Thus no problem is with the type of silesystem. The
> > problem is inside of mencoder.
> >
> Presumably these oversized avi files did not arrive on your machine
> unbidden. They came from somewhere, and if the spec for AVI limits file
> size to 4Gb, regardless of what your file system can handle, then, by
> definition, any AVI larger than 4Gb is broken.
>
> http://neuron2.net/LVG/filesize.html
> "Standard AVI files can be up to 4 GB in size if other methods of
> handling AVIs are used."
>
> If you are the one creating these files, then you should probably use
> some other container format than AVI, since it's not able to provide you
> with what you need.
>
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