Large filesizes (re-formatted)

[Vangelis forthnet]

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

 If you are on Windows, you can grab the x86 binary here
(again,c/o dinkypumpkin):

https://bitbucket.org/dinkypumpkin/rtmpdump/downloads

 You can safely replace your current copy of rtmpdump.exe
(or choose to back it up first) with this moded one - just rename it
from  rtmpdump-4GB.exe to simply rtmpdump.exe.
 Or you can point get_iplayer to this new binary by editing your system
options file or via the --rtmpdump <path> option...
 If not on Windows, I'm sure others can step in...

Regards,
Vangelis.