Re: [transcode-users] Odd TMPEnc combo problem - "new RIFF chunkthrows it"

[Phil Ehrens <phil@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Humphries wrote:
> 
> That works fine - until the resulting AVI from transcode reaches a
> certain threshold (presumably 2GB, but that's just a guess on my
> part). TMPGEnc converts the AVI file, up to part-way through the job,
> coincidentally when a new RIFF chunk is started.
> 
> Is there any possibility of disabling this chunking so that the large
> file is one large chunk? TMPGEnc can handle plain uncompressed AVI
> files up to 4GB.

AFAIK this is a limitation defined in the avi standard. Why don't
you just use Transcode instead? And AFAIK, Transcode and Mencoder will
both happily read huge avi files and convert them into, yeccch, mpeg1.