[Live-devel] File size with OpenRTSP

[Ishan Vaishnavi]

You are hitting standard unix limits for 32 bit
machines I think, since 2^31 = 2 G.

A lot of programs have 2 G limitation for example zip
- unzip.

HTH
Ishan


--- Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com> wrote:

> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am using OpenRTSP like this on my Linux box:
> >
> >openRTSP -F my_file rtsp://my_url
> >
> >to capture a streaming video program.
> >
> >This works very good but the file cannot be bigger
> than 2Go. Why ?
> 
> I don't know.  The file output code (to implement
> the "FileSink" 
> class) uses the standard routines "fopen()" and
> "fwrite()" (and 
> doesn't try to seek at all within the file), so I
> don't know why the 
> output file would get restricted to 2**31 bytes in
> size, if your OS 
> supports larger sizes.  What version of Linux are
> you using?
> 
> 	Ross.
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