Large filesizes (re-formatted)

[TQ]

> On 04 July 2014 at 00:11 Vangelis forthnet
> <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
>
>
> Apologies, my mail client is acting weird :-(
>
> On Thu Jul 3 19:43:25 BST 2014, TQ wrote:
>
> > I seem to recall a thread a while ago regarding large files ( >4GB
> > or
> > so) which truncate at the fat32 limit due to, ISTR, rtmpdump.
> >
> > I've trawled back through my archives and can't find any reference.
> > Does anybody remember it,
>
>  You can find this thread in the Feb 2014 list archives:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2014-February/thread.html#start
>
>  OP was Sam P:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2014-February/005425.html
>
>  and the issue was observed on the flashhd quality variant of the
> Winter Olympics 2014 Opening Ceremony...
>
> > what was the solution
>
>  Many thanks to dinkypumpkin, who provided a special mod of rtmpdump
> to bypass the RTMP 4GB limit (which has nothing to do with the file
> system
> of your hard disk):
>
> https://bitbucket.org/dinkypumpkin/rtmpdump/branch/4GB

Exactly what I was thinking of, but longer ago than I imagined! The
patched version is downloaded, installed and the glasto file is all OK.

Thanks for the help.

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