[MPlayer-users] Large -sb values

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 04:35:16AM -0500, Andy Goth wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> In MPlayer-0.90pre6, seek_to_byte is an off_t, which on my system is a 
> 32-bit value (unsigned, most likely).  This is a problem because I need to 
> decss a largish dvd movie for view on a separate computer (the only 
> computer with the dvd-rom drive is far too slow to view in realtime using 
> mplayer [note: it gave great video with powerdvd in w95, but I don't have 
> Windows anymore]).
> 
> mplayer won't write a file more than exactly two gigabytes in length.  I am 
> not sure if this is a filesystem limitation... it's doubtful--the 
> destination partition is formatted reiserfs.

Did you enable largefile support at compiletime? Also be aware
mencoder cannot make avi's longer than 2gig, its a limitation of avi
format (without extra hacked-in headers which are not supported yet).

Rich