Re: Writing MAC OS-X compliant DVD files size >2GB

On 01/28/2011 09:50 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

She can read the <2GB Mpegs and replay them, but longer Mpegs give negative files sizes and OS-X gives up and dies.

Seems to be a bug in OSX. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#The_2.2F4_GiB_file_size_limit

| In the case of Mac OS X, the driver appears not to support file fragmentation
| at all (i.e. it only supports ISO 9660 Level 2 but not Level 3)

What options?

Send bug report to Apple, or use dd to cut the file into pieces and
cat * > them to the local HDD to play.
.

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