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

Martin Maciaszek mmaciaszek at gmx.net
Mon Dec 31 12:52:44 CET 2001


The .avi file is actually a divx. BSPlay on Windows plays it fine.

--On Montag, 31. Dezember 2001 13:03 +0100 Tony Clark <tclark at telia.com> 
wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Not sure but I think the 2G limit is an AVI limitation, not an mplayer
> limitation.
>
> tony
>
>
> On Monday 31 December 2001 11:54, you 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.
>>




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