[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Writing index in avi files > 2GB

[Steven M. Schultz]

Hi!

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Arpi wrote:

> > 	(libquicktime, Postgresql are two I know of).  The prototypes
> > 	can go where convenient.
> 
> afair we're already using ftello() in mencoder, and nobody compalined

	True but the compatibility method (for systems which have
	fsetpos/fgetpos instead of ftello/fseeko) will break with
	files > 2GB:

./config.h:# define ftello(a) ftell(a)

	ftell is not 64bit capable - so while mencoder will build it could
	have problems on files over 2GB.

	Cheers,
	Steven Schultz