[MPlayer-users] Re: Mencoder help please. Full HOWTO?

[Stefan Seyfried]

A bit offtopic, i must confess :-)

Attila Kinali <kinali at gmx.net> writes:
> "Net Dragon" <netdragon at dragonspot.net> wrote:
 
>> I would just downloads the 3.2gig stream, but it takes 3 days and FTP
>> seems to give up after 2.1gigs. 
> 
> This sounds like your ftp client is not capable of handling big files
> (ie files bigger than 2G), use a better client (i guess ncftp should
> be able if you use a current kernel and libc)

or better, if you have ssh access to the machine, use rsync over ssh,
because you get checksumming, partial transfers etc.pp at no extra cost.

I wonder how long people will be causing themselves headache and other
pain by using unsuitable ancient protocols for their tasks :-)

regards,

   Stefan
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