4GB filesize limit

dinkypumpkin dinkypumpkin at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 07:29:47 EST 2014


On 17/02/2014 01:35, Paul Phillips wrote:
> New version of rtmpdump didn't work I'm afraid, a 4gb+ file ended up being 8mb
> See output below:
>
> Recording The Following Programmes
>
> Winter Olympics - Sochi 2014: Day 3, Part 1 - 5.00am to 9.00am (b03vmcts)
> ...
> Truncating packet of size 18847 to 3468
> [flv @ 003c9a20] Stream discovered after head already parsed
> [flv @ 003c9a20] New data stream 0:2 at pos:2640350895 and DTS:-458169s

Your download may have worked, but the file was trashed during 
re-muxing.  The hacked rtmpdump may have produced a file that confused 
ffmpeg.  I can downloaded that programme with no problems, so no clue. 
Best to use --raw and re-mux later so that you don't lose the downloaded 
file.



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