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

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:12:17PM +0000, Stephen Davies wrote:
> > 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?

Yeah. Martin, you should check if you are able to access ANY data beyond
2Gb in a file. Maybe your system (glibc and/or kernel) can handle this.
I knew that AVI format HAS got 2Gb limitation, but maybe this is an
old fact based on old format, I don't know exactly.

- Gabor