Steve Russo wrote: > > Hello all! > > I would like to record movies to one file instead of splitting them into two > but I am running into the 2 gig file barrier. I did some research and found > LFS. I installed LFS by patching my kernel, recompiling, patching glibc, > recompiling, etc, etc.... The LFS test comes back with all OK's but I still > cannot get files bigger than 2gig. I have tried catting out a file to > another file to see if I could break the barrier but that just gives me the > error about the file being to big. I then went to read up on it more and > found that it is application specific. I am not a c programmer so I thought > that I would bounce this off the list. > > My questions are: > > To get MP1E to create files greater than 2 gig, would MP1E need to change or > is there something else that needs to be done (More patching of libs, v4l2 > patching, etc etc)? > > Is anyone working on getting this to work? > > Thanks, > > Steve I think I see the problem (although I have not really looked at LFS). mp1e writes to stdout. The shell (i.e. bash/tcsh/etc.) actually writes to disk. Make sure that your shell is compiled with 64 bit support. A simple test would be "dd if=/dev/zero of=junkfile bs=1M count=3M" and see what file size you get - if it is only 2G, then it is likely the shell causing your problems?? -justin
