[vdr] Re: Filesize problem (over 2GB)

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

Marco wrote:
> 
> I changed the max. filesize to 4GB. But if i record a movie, vdr create hundrets of small files.
> I use ext3. I tried it also with reiserfs. but the same problem.
> My os is RedHat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.13-ac5.
> 
> How can i get the filesize to 4GB ?

VDR is not designed to create files larger than 2GB.

What you can do is to combine the separate files to one large file with

  cat *.vdr > largefile

but you won't be able to replay such a file with VDR any more.

Klaus
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