[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Seek in large files

[Frank Aurich]

Vladimir Filippov wrote:
> I use MPlayer 1.0rc1 Windows from 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
> Then I am try to seek in video file with size about 4,3 GB MPlayer
> write message:
> Cannot seek in this file.
> 
> But there is no problem to seek in this file by MPlayer 1.0pre7 in
> Linux. I try to open file from NTFS and UDF filesystems (in Windows
> and Linux). They normally support files of great volume.
> 
> May be Windows version in mplayerhq.hu compiled without
> --enable-largefiles option? Or the reason in other?

I just noticed this as well. Actually, I had noticed quite a while ago. I always 
figured something was missing in the header of these large files. But apparently 
that is not the case.

I compiled Mplayer with the --enable-largefiles option, but that didn't help.

Any clue what this might be?


Frank