[gst-devel] Playing large files on Windows XP

[Michael Smith]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Andoni Morales Alastruey
<ylatuya at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> For my  project I've being developing a  C# multimedia player based on
> GStreamer. As mono runs both on Unix and Windows and also does GTK and
> Gstreamer I easily ported it to windows, getting a C# multiplatfrom
> multimedia player based on Gstreamer.testing
>
> I've being testing GStreamer on Windows for 2 weeks and it seems to play
> almost everything (including mov and wmv files...) The problem is when I
> try to play large files,more than 2GB. It just hangs-up. It's very
> strange because the files are encoded with the same codec and using the
> same bitrate, the unique difference it's that they are different size.

This is a known bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547277

This patch will probably be in the next release.

>
> Does any one know about this issue?
> Is somebody working on updating the windows binaries? (probably it
> solves the problem)

It doesn't (the patch hasn't been committed yet), but nobody is
actively working on updating the windows binaries as far as I know -
though a number of people are ensuring that the trunk remains
buildable on windows.

Mike