Read File at > 2GB Problem

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

Hi

As far as i know, win32 can handle files above 900 GBs (i've seen a zip 
file that big, imagine how big the
xml file compressed within was!)... Some video systems breakdown big files 
to make them easier to read 
and moving the viewer from chapters to chapter (but this is just a 
software limit)... 

I dont think any modern system would have such a ridiculous limit...
What is possible is that rev depends on a pointer to the file which would 
be a signed interger limited near
the size of 2GBs...

Regards,
Xavier

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 17/05/2007 11:57:39:

> I seem to remember something about most OSs not supporting file sizes 
>  > 2GB, and that anything that appeared bigger was actually several 
> 2GB files joined together.
> But my only experience of this was using iMovie some time ago, where 
> imported DV footage was automatically broken down into 2GB chunks.
> 
> Ian
> 
> On 17 May 2007, at 10:27, John Craig wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Dave.  I just tried a 4GB file with Suse Linux and it was 
> > lightening fast.
> > I read from position 3,221,225,472 (3GB mark).
> >
> > Maybe it depends on platform?
> 


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