Hi no I'm not using mplayer--i'm using the standard Internal player. As many suggested I'm going to try to reformat into another filesystem. Just in time too, I'm expecting a new hardware upgrade this weekend. BTW I'm using xvid.
I'll report back if i'm successful. jondz On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 20:38 -0400, MacNean Tyrrell wrote: > It's an mplayer thing, well not just mplayer, but that's the default > player for avi files. Couple things. It doesn't have support for > large files configured by default: > > You need to enable support for large files and your glibc must support > it. > ./configure --help > --enable-largefiles enable support for files > 2 GBytes [disable] > > Second, i would search the mplayer mailing lists. I think you also > need to run the option -idx if you need to seek, that can take a long > time, so there is the -saveidx and -loadidx but i've never used those. > You might see a mplayer mailing where it didn't work for me, xvid 2gb > limit or something, back then i never got it working, but i did at > some point. Since my system crashed with my new harddrive, i haven't > gotten aroudn to "refixing" it yet, but i'm sure it'll work for you. > Also, are you transcoding into divx or xvid? I think those are the > only two options, i could be wrong, anyways you might want to download > the newest codecs, newest mplayer source, and compile them. Just my > thoughts on the subject. Hope it works for you. > > On 10/14/05, jondz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm new(re-subscribed) to the list. > > Has anybody encountered this before: I seem to > have a 2 gigabyte limit on avi files (transcoded > movies). When either the Internal player or the > mythcommflag reaches that they just hang. I know > the files are fine because gnome totem plays > them movies fine to the end. > > quick facts about my box: > > 1. it used to be debian STABLE (kernel 2.4). > 2. I turned it into UNSTABLE, and upgraded to 2.6. > 3. I use XVID for transcoding. > 4. I have compiled my own mythtv packages using > the debian mythtv versions. > > Whereas I am perfectly happy right now sticking > with < 2 hour movies I will be grateful for somebody > who points me in the right direction, thanks. > > thanks for a great software! > > jondz > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > -- > Sincerely, > > MacNean C. Tyrrell > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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