On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:44:43AM -0500, James Hastings-Trew wrote:
i have 2 .avi file sized 4.9 Gig and 12 Gig, and i want to convert them to 2 mpeg files, but when i run mencoder as usual to change these files, it works on them until it reaches the 4096 MB of input file and then it stops without any unusual message :-(
AVI files do not support sizes larger than 4 GB, unless you use the (AFAIK) non-standard ODML extension. How were those files created? Can you play them with MPlayer? Can anything at all play them?
If I had to hazard a guess, you are bumping up against a filesystem limit (4Gb is a common limit).
This is not a possibility, since the _input_ seems to be a problem.
I don't know anything about the limits of ext3, however, so others with more knowledge will have to speak up on the issue.
At least 16GB, usually 2 TB. Though those values were from Linux 2.4 times, so they may have been extended again. Greetings, Reimar Döffinger