Philip Lawatsch wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Boris Lenzinger wrote:
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So you can set a larger value if your /video folder (or whatever) lies
on a filesystem that supports files larger than 2G else don't do it ;)
I strongly advise against this!
VDR is _NOT_ designed to handle files larger than 2GB.
Would you accept a patch doing the following:
.) Defining file_offset_bits to 64 which will lead to all of the
"normal" file operations use 64 bit io
.) change all the integer references for file offsets to fpos_t and
alike?
Afair this is all that has to be done.
If you would accept it I'd go and patch vdr.
Why, it ain't broken, why to 'fix' it ?
What would be the benefit for VDR in general, better picture quality ?
Having just one file for a recording (unless the recording is restarted,
if vdr crashed for instance) just makes things easier if you want to
replay the file in a normal movie player for instance. This would make
life much easier if you want to replay recordings with for instance xbmc.