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

[Paul Forgey]

I have a similar situation but my video source is mjpg, whose frames 
can't fit in the TS packets.  This means I have to use AVI, but I am 
hitting the 2GB file size limit.

On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 01:48 PM, Gildas Bazin wrote:

> 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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