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Experimental Mplayer build from SVN -- 4 GB files? (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 04.09.2010, 08:02

> I wonder if there is a way around the 2GB file-size limit? I think I posted
> about this topic a couple of years ago (around the time of mik's DJGPP
> ports of Mplayer), and the consensus then seemed to be a patch to unsigned
> DWORD integers was possible. At least unsigned 32-bit integers would make
> the limit 4GB which would play MOST single-layered DVDs and/or .VOBs all
> the way though!
Since he's using DJGPP 2.04 beta to compile, it has the 4 GB patches (according to CWS) though I've never tried it. AFAICT, you need a suitable OS (MS-DOS 7 ???), and FreeDOS still doesn't support > 2 GB files, even on FAT32, where it's able to be supported. At one time Eric Auer said it was "fairly trivial" to maybe? fix, but he never publicly hacked on it. I'm honestly not sure how many kernel devs still exist, and even Eric is "out of town" (or whatever) for another two or three weeks. You could always try the mailing list (or even e-mail Pat directly, who knows ...).

(Hope that helps explain it somehow, but I doubt it.)

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