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[RS]

From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 00:42

>> Both drives are formatted as FAT32.

> How are you managing > 4GB video files with the above file system on those 
> drives?

The solution adopted in the satellite receiver is to break a recording up 
into 500MByte segments (about 10min at HD).  If I need to download a file 
larger then 4GByte from get_iplayer or create such a file myself I'll have 
to do it to an internal NTFS drive.  I can then use ffmpeg to split it into 
FAT32 compatible files so I can use the satellite receiver to play them.

You could also have asked me how I handle files with colons in the names. 
Even the BBC is now occasionally using colons in programme names.  I guess 
the satellite receiver uses some flavour of Linux so it includes them in the 
file names.  Removing them in Windows is a pain, especially if a programme 
is spread over 20 files.  To my horror a few days ago I thought Windows 10 
had removed support for Windows 95 short file names (Progra~1.mts).  I then 
found a reminder about dir /x which displays the short file names, and I 
realised I had just got the name wrong.

Best wishes
Richard