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

[Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Klaus Schmidinger (KS) wrote:

KS> From: Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
KS> Organization: CadSoft Computer GmbH
KS> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
KS> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:09:16 +0200
KS> Subject: [vdr] Re: Does VDR still have the 2GB filesize-limitation?
KS> Reply-To: vdr@linuxtv.org
KS>
KS> Rene Bartsch wrote:
KS> >
KS> > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
KS> > > Rene Bartsch wrote:
KS> > >
KS> > >>Hi,
KS> > >>
KS> > >>do the new versions still have a maximum filesize limited to 2 Gbyte?
KS> > >
KS> > >
KS> > > Yes, and this is not going to change.
KS> > > If you want to have one large file, you can simply do
KS> > >
KS> > >   cat 00?.vdr > largefile
KS> > >
KS> > > Klaus
KS> >
KS> > I know the cat-version, but I simply want to use the video-directory
KS> > with apache, and it's not quite comfortable to get several files with a
KS> > player over http. So I want one big file for a film.
KS> >
KS> You can automate the 'cat' thing by giving VDR a script file that gets called
KS> after each recording, and in which you combine the 00?.vdr files to one big
KS> file (see the '-r' option and VDR/INSTALL).


or just write a cgi script and put it on the web server. ths cgi would let
you select a recording directory and then would cat each file to stdout
(to the browser)


c ya
        Sergei
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