Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On 16.03.2008 17:55, Florian Gleixner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> i use dvbcut to cut my recordings. After cutting i can rename the >> resulting mpg file to 001.vdr, delete the index file and run genindex >> and then i have a perfect cutted recording. This works well for all >> recordings that are smaller than 2GB. If the file is > 2GB, i tried to >> concat the 001.vdr 002.vdr ... files and use dvbcut to make a new >> 001.vdr. Unfortunately vdr does not like files > 2GB. But i also canot >> use split -b 2097152000 to make new vdr files, because it would not >> split at GOP. Or is that not needed? >> >> It would be easier if vdr could handle files > 2GB - and tools like >> genindex too. Handling these files for playback would be enough for me. >> >> Or is there another preferred method cutting files? I dont want to use >> vdrs cutter because my remote does not really work well and i read that >> i can only cut every iframe. dvbcuts sliders are really easy to handle :-) > > The "core" problem is index.vdr > > The field for offset into the ???.vdr-file is 32bit i.e. 4GB max. Don't > remember if it is used signed (which reduces it to effectivly 2GB) or > for 'good measure', but that's the reason for the 2GB limit per file. > > This has been discusses several times in the past and Klaus doesn't want > to (backward incompatible) change the format of index.vdr. > > So for short: Larger than 2GB is a no go. > > Thanks, its now clearer to me. So the question is: if i use "split -b ..." to split the files, i surely don't split at a iframe. Is this a problem? I also found out, that i probably can use genindex -r after using dvbcut to generate vdr compatible files. It seems to split at a iframe. 2GB are small files nowaday. vdr should be probably able to replay bigger files even if there is no index file? But that has Klaus to decide i think. Flo _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
