[Live-devel] Storing MPEG-2 TS data over multple 2GB files

[Daniel Robbins]

In this case, the 2GB limit isn't an operating system or filesystem 
limitation per se, but is required for other reasons.

Thanks for the information.

Regards,

-Daniel

Ross Finlayson wrote:
> Is it not possible to upgrade to a more modern operating system that 
> supports files larger than 2 GBytes?  (Note that this will work even 
> with 32-bit CPUs.)  That would be the best solution.
>
>   
>> Specifically, I'm interested in knowing:
>>
>> 1) What is the best place to "split" the stream (on an I-frame boundary?)
>>     
>
> I'd say: Split the file on a Transport Stream frame boundary - i.e., 
> on a 188-byte boundary.
>
>   
>> 2) Can live555 be instructed to treat these multiple files as a single
>> logical stream, so that the resultant segmented MPEG-2 data could be
>> later streamed to clients without significant additional complication
>> such as manually concatenating the files?
>>     
>
> While I'm generally disinclined to add hacks to the code to support 
> broken (or archaic) operating systems, in this case there is a 
> mechanism in the code (the "ByteStreamMultiFileSource" class) that 
> could support this.  So you're in luck...
>