[vlc] Re: Simple question about file size limite for streaming to file.

Gildas Bazin gbazin at netcourrier.com
Wed Jun 11 22:48:20 CEST 2003


On Wednesday 11 June 2003 22:25, Philippe Van Hecke wrote:
> >True, the avi muxer from our stream output doesn't yet support the 
OpenDML
> > extension which allows an avi file size > 2GB.
> 
> So if i want record a stream where the size will be more than 2GB i must 
> use almost the TS muxer ?
> 
> I ask this because we will stream an event from a vls/v4l in multicast and 
> we will also want save this event on file. As the event will have a 
> duration of more than 6 hours. I will be sure that i can save the stream  
> with vlc.
> 

TS would be a wise choice. However you should also consider using the "dump" 
demuxer to save this multicast stream as it has the advantage of not 
modifying the incoming stream (less chances that something bad will 
happen).

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Gildas

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