[vdr] Re: vdr / change MaxVideoFileSize > 2000MB

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

Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> 
> Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M wrote:
> > IIRC there is one unused byte per 8 byte entry in the index.vdr anyway.
> > But I dislike solution like that and would like to reiterate my previous
> > qustion:
> >
> > What's the advantage of having large file support over the current situation
> > ???
> 
> much more compact and less error-prone program and easier usage and
> managing of recordings.

Plus additional problems if you want to handle such files on systems
that don't support files larger than 2GB.

Sorry, couldn't resist...
VDR works fine the way it is. I'm not going to change that.
If you need large files, just 'cat' them.

Klaus
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