[MPlayer-users] --enable-largefile not working?

[Stephen Davies]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Martin Maciaszek wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I tired to play an 2.4GB large DivX on Linux (glibc 2.2, Kernel 2.4.17). My 
> first attept failed because I didn't compile in support for large files. 
> But even after compiling with --enable-largefile it didn't work. The movie 
> stops prematurely. I took a closer look with strace which confirmed that 
> mplayer still uses seek which can only access 2GB. I searched the mailing 
> list archives and the FAQs. No mention of this problem.

I did just check with ea 2.4 GB mpeg1 file and mplayer was fine.  I have
glibc 2.2.2, 2.4.10 kernel.  But aren't avis limited to 2GB (2^31) in
themselves?

Steve