[vdr] Re: .vdr maximum file size

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

Wolfgang Fritz wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> is there a technical reason why the maximum file size of a .vdr file is
> limited to 2000MB? Some postprocessing tools accept neither multiple
> input files nor FIFOs as input file so a time and disk space cosuming
> "cat"-ing to one big vdr file is required.

Keeping the files below 2GB makes sure VDR will work on _any_ system.
Besides, using 64 bit file offsets would cause an unnecessary bloat
in the index file.

Klaus
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