[MPlayer-cygwin] Can not mencoder/mplayer 5+GB avi file

[F. Aurich]

On 25.11.2007, at 15:55, TAJTHY Tamás <tajthy at mailbox.hu> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have a very annoying problem. I grabbed a film with VirtualDub  
> 1.7.6. The
> result is a 5+GB avi file (video: ffmjpeg, audio: PCM 48kHZ stereo).  
> This film
> can be played by MS Media Player w/o any problem. The mplayer plays  
> only the
> first two riff chunks (~2060 MB) and mencoder converts the same  
> length.
>
> I use:
>
> MEncoder 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
>
> CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
>
> Could anyone help me how to mencode the whole file to mpeg4? I can  
> do it if the
> file is smaller than 2 GB.
>
> I just got the idea to use
>
> mencoder ... <file.avi
>
> instead of
>
> mencoder ... file.avi
>
> I'll try it!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> TT
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You are most likely missing large file support. Check this mailing  
list, there was a question about this a couple of days ago. A patch  
for MSys/MingW is needed for this.

Cheers,
Frank