[MPlayer-users] Re: AVIs > 2gigs

[Chris Frey]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:58:12PM +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Chris Frey wrote:
> 
> CF>I've just encoded a DVD and the resulting AVI is larger than 2 gigs
> CF>(will just fit on 3 700meg CD's).
> 
> Hey, how did you manage to do this? For me, mencoder simple segfaults
> (or exits with an error, I don't remember) on 2G boundary.

I'm using an old version of mplayer (MEncoder 0.90rc5-3.2.2).  I don't
know if that has anything to do with it though.

Maybe I just got lucky.  I'm re-encoding now in smaller chunks, which
I probably should have done in the first place. :-)

- Chris