On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > I'm real tempted to change the default size limit in mplex to be 0 > > (infinite) - 2GB in the era of creating DVDs is just too small. > > Well, kind of. Larger files have a number of potential issues, > including incompatibility with software players, and the inability for
Still? MPlayer handles large files fine. What software players have problems I wonder? But I do know of one problem - seems the 'ftpd' on SuSE 8.2 balks at files >2GB so yes, there are lingering 32bit problems in some programs it seems. > Linux to cope with large files over NFS and stuff... Shouldn't be a problem - NFSv3 and all that. Besides, the DV files I've been tossing around are in the 20GB range (on a SuSE system). > I would suggest that a good default for DVD stuff is the 1GB mark. *that* is the DVD authoring program's job as it is creating the VOB files. In fact presenting multiple smaller files to dvdauthor _will not work_. Each track on a DVD must come from a single file - it's a FEP (Frequently Encountered Problem ;)) on the dvdauthor mailing list (and this one too as I recall). Even DVD Studio Pro behaves that way - each .m2v file goes into a separate 'track' in which chapters are created. Thus a 4GB .m2v file is needed and not 4 1GB files. Thus single larger files are a necessity when creating DVDs for standalone players. Creating multiple 1GB files will completely frustrate folks trying to use DVD authoring software. Besides, -S can always be used to set the desired size. What I was thinking of was changing the default. 2000MB is an awkward size - it's vastly more than a SVCD/VCD needs but inadequate for a DVD. Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users