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

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

"Bläser, Lars" wrote:
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M
> > [mailto:C.Rienecker@deutschepost.de]
> > Gesendet am: Freitag, 12. Juli 2002 09:49
> > An: vdr@linuxtv.org
> > Betreff: [vdr] Re: vdr / change MaxVideoFileSize > 2000MB
> >
> > 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
> > ???
> 
> more flexibility, for my purpose it would be good to have the limit on 4GB (ore more in the future)
> bcause of the following:
> if i have a movie with 2GB and 1 GB ("normal split") and i want to produce a dvd with my windows system (SpruceUp) i fix the 2 files with pvastumento, put them together and cut with tmpeg (or womble), demux it and try to open that in spruceup i get a error with gop structure (on the former border between the 2 files)

I can't imagine where that would come from.
When VDR switches from one file to the next, it simply writes the last byte
of the first file, closes it, and then writes the next byte to the next file.
So if you 'cat' the files together, it should be no different than writing
one large file.

Actually, when testing this during development, I had it running with very small
file size limits, so a recording of some 5 minutes produced like 30 separate
files. When replaying them I couldn't observe any problems.

Klaus
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