[vdr] Re: Does VDR still have the 2GB filesize-limitation?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Rene Bartsch wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>do the new versions still have a maximum filesize limited to 2 Gbyte?
> >
> >
> > Yes, and this is not going to change.
> > If you want to have one large file, you can simply do
> >
> >   cat 00?.vdr > largefile
> >
> > Klaus
> 
> I know the cat-version, but I simply want to use the video-directory
> with apache, and it's not quite comfortable to get several files with a
> player over http. So I want one big file for a film.
> 
> Is it a problem of the VDR-structure (data-type, etc.) or only a
> security and compatibility decision? Then I'd like a "LARGEFILE=1" when
> compiling and a filesize=0 in setup.conf could mean unlimited :o)

There are several reasons:

- Files up to 2GB can be handled by any file system
- The index.vdr file would have to be changed from 32 to 64 bit indexes,
  where most of the time only half of the data would be actually used
- VDR would still have to be able to spread a recording over several
  files

You can automate the 'cat' thing by giving VDR a script file that gets called
after each recording, and in which you combine the 00?.vdr files to one big
file (see the '-r' option and VDR/INSTALL).

Klaus
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