[MPlayer-cygwin] largefile support

[Diego Biurrun]

Wen-King Su writes:
> I have been having problem streaming and playing aything greater than 2
> gigabytes on windows machine -- a routine encounter when my video
> source is a ReplayTV.  This is the last show-stopper I know that keeps
> this from being a serious player for ReplayTV users.

Just to be sure..  You are using NTFS, right?

> I want to
> rewrite the whole closed caption code -- there are two essentially
> functionally duplicated contributed sections on closed captioning, and
> both appears to be badly written and broken.  I was able to make use of
> one of them to acceptible approximation, but it could be done better.

Send a patch ;-)

> I also want to add codes that do automatic commercial skip, and hot-key
> advance to end of next scene or commercial break [fade point].
> However, I am reluctant to commit my effort if I have to live with the
> 2 gigabytes limit.  I spent the weekend I looking at the code and doing
> trial compilation, and I came to the conclusion that the file size
> limit is for me to solve.  Is anybody working on that?

At least on Linux large file support is available, I have not yet
experimented with it, though.

Diego