Re: Ways around 2GB/4GB File Limit?

I believe it's the version of fopen they're using that limits media file 
size to 2GB.  It shouldn't be to hard to fix once they've gotten 
Soundbridge out the door.  It's been an oft requested feature since last year.

Bart

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At 03:07 PM 6/19/2004 -0700, you wrote:

>I've seen references to this in previous postings, but no clear answer.
>Is there anyway around 2GB/4GB file limits?
>
>I've been relatively happy with the Roku's basic ability to play ATSC 
>streams off of our Samba
>file server. Unfortunately, an hour long episode of 1080i ATSC programming 
>comes in at ~8GB.
>Hence the 2GB/4GB file limit makes most of the ATSC programming we're 
>capturing un-watchable in practice.
>
>Breaking the file up in multiple pieces is  a work around, however, this 
>breaks other
>systems (e.g., mythtv's backend) and viewers as well as complicates 
>back-end storage and management.
>I'd rather apply any effort to making the Roku do the right thing.
>
>I'm trying to understand if this is an issue with the Roku's version of 
>Linux (I'm running the standard Roku-1.5.18, Linux 2.4.18) or just their 
>version of Samba and NFS. (I've had no problems playing files via laptops 
>(MacOSX)/pc's(WinXP) with VLC over both samba and NFS)
>
>Samba:
>         I think it may be a 4GB file limit size (files >2GB seem OK, 
> files < 4GB don't really work.)
>
>         When I trying 'ls' files, I just get large negative or incorrect 
> numbers.
>         All files are listed properly under CinemaSix/MpegPSPlay
>         Files will play for about the first ~4GB and then just stop. The 
> unit doesn't lock up, it just
>         pauses on the that frame of the file. (These files play fine via 
> VLC on MacOSX/WinXP.)
>
>NFS:
>         when trying to 'ls' files larger than 2GB I get this error:
>         <file> Value too large for defined data type
>         (Interesting to note that these same files will 'ls' properly 
> under samba if size is >2GB and <4GB.)
>
>         These files don't even show up under CinemaSix/MpegPSPlay.
>         If I 'dd' off a couple of megabytes, these files play just fine.
>
>Has anyone had any luck getting around these limitations?
>Is this a known issue?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Taylor
>
>P.S.
>
>I couldn't help but notice Rokulabs seems to be located in Palo Alto (CA). 
>I presume the Roku folks already have large example files to test, but if 
>not, I'd be happy to bring a couple over via a firewire drive.
>
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