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



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