[MPlayer-users] Re: 20020709 libavcodec snapshot and RH's gcc3-3.1-1

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 10 July 2002, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wednesday 10 July 2002 02:28, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On another topic - does mplayer have problems with AVIs larger than 2GB?
> hmm, there once was a patch to add OpenDML avi support to mplayer, but I dunno 
> if it was commited. If not mplayer will definitly have probs with >2GB avi.

It appears it has, but it's not obvious to a casual user, because mplayer
doesn't say "this file is too big", only "can't find index, try to use -ni
or -idx", which would suggest broken file, when it's not broken, only too big.
 
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