4GB Limit

Michael Proctor-smith mproctorsmith at y...
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:30:54 -0700 (PDT)


Ok so everone here knows this is a tivo file size
limit problem. The very very old version of linux used
had a 4GB file size limit. The tivo stores files in
512MB chunks to avoid this problem. Only way to avoid
it is to modify the extraction software to split into
more than one file at some point.

> I read an interesting "professional" article to do
> with video capture 
> which stated that it wasn't FAT32's limitation to
> 4GB is was Windows 
> 98/ME.
> 
> Needlessy to say after upgrading to Windows 2000 I
> found this to be 
> total bollocks. It was necessary to upgrade to NTFS
> as it was still 
> erroring when extracting from W2K to FAT32.
> 
> Be warned.

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