Re: announce: dvgrab 0.6

[Andreas B. <and...@mu...>]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:30:28PM +0200, Arne Schirmacher wrote:
> The biggest advantage is a new feature which I named "autosplit". It checks 
> certain flags in the DV data to see whether the current frame belongs to a new 
> recording. If so, it creates a new AVI file for this new recording. It will 
> also create new AVI files whenever the requested number of frames is exceeded 
> or when the AVI file reaches the 2 GByte file size limit.

Regarding the 2GB limit: current 2.3 kernels should be able to do more
(even on 32 bit machines).  In part it was also an intended limitation
in order not to break the APIs (lseek() has to be able to do relative
seeks from one end to the other).

The API issues are resolved with current glibcs.  Either use the 64
bit functions (open64, lseek64 etc.) or define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS to 64
then the standard open etc. calls will run in large file mode.

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