[MPlayer-users] mencoder and large avi files

[Fredrik Kuivinen]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:41:40AM +0100, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Am Mon, 2002-03-25 um 10.21 schrieb Fredrik Kuivinen:
> 
> > AFAIK standard avi files have a 4 GB limit. There is a extension to the avi
> > format, called OpenDML
> > (http://www.matrox.com/videoweb/news/press/papers/odmlff2.htm), but it is
> > currently not supported by mplayer/mencoder.
> the size limit is IMHO 2GB...

According to http://www.matrox.com/videoweb/news/press/papers/odmlff2.pdf,
page 9, it is 4 GB... But maybe it is limited to 2 GB by some other restriction
I don't know.

/ Fredrik