vlc has issue playing large (~7GB) dvr-ms files

[rerdey]

Windows Media Center will place recorded shows in dvr-ms files, which I am able to view via VLC. After upgrading to ubuntu 8.10 from 8.4, I find that I am not able to view very large dvr-ms files, which are around 7 GB in size. At the moment I do not know where the tipping point is in file size, but I can view 2.4 GB files without any problems.
With the large files, the problem occurs somewhere past the halfway point and once it is reached, VLC will skip back to the beginning of the file. You can not use the slider to go past the point of failure.

[John Dong (jdong)]

Sounds like some sort of 32-bit integer overflow bug. Hmm, hopefully VLC's developers can shed a bit more light on this situation.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

John Dong <email address hidden> writes:

> Sounds like some sort of 32-bit integer overflow bug. Hmm, hopefully
> VLC's developers can shed a bit more light on this situation.

they generally won't look for bugs here in launchpad themselves...

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[Xtophe (xtophe)]

Try with --no-file-mmap

[rerdey (raymond-m-erdey)]

I tried the --no-file-mmap option with VLC, but it did not work...

rerdey@erdeypc002:/media/Programs$ ls -l Beowulf_SCIFI_01_11_2008_19_58_03.dvr-ms
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7970080105 2008-11-01 22:23 Beowulf_SCIFI_01_11_2008_19_58_03.dvr-ms

rerdey@erdeypc002:/media/Programs$ vlc --no-file-mmap Beowulf_SCIFI_01_11_2008_19_58_03.dvr-ms
VLC media player 0.9.4 Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.4 Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--enable-maintaner-mode' '--enable-release' '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-libtool' '--enable-fast-install' '--with-binary-version=1ubuntu3' '--disable-update-check' '--disable-gnome' '--disable-gtk' '--disable-familiar' '--disable-fb' '--enable-ggi' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-esd' '--enable-mad' '--enable-arts' '--enable-jack' '--enable-pulse' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-a52' '--enable-aa' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-mozilla' '--with-mozilla-pkg=libxul-plugin' '--disable-kde' '--enable-mp4' '--enable-dvb' '--disable-satellite' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-shout' '--enable-qt4' '--disable-slp' '--enable-flac' '--disable-skins' '--disable-basic-skins' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-speex' '--enable-caca' '--enable-live555' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-fribidi' '--enable-cdio' '--enable-mod' '--enable-theora' '--enable-modplug' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-gnutls' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-smb' '--disable-gnomevfs' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-vcd' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-notify' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-x264' '--enable-faad' '--disable-zvbi' '--enable-telx' '--enable-mediacontrol-bindings' '--disable-atmo' '--enable-taglib' '--enable-libass' '--enable-libdca' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-dv' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-v4l2' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-svgalib' '--enable-dvd' '--without-dvdcss' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1

[rerdey (raymond-m-erdey)]

This may be bug on the VLC side for this issue:

http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=ecf0e952ef668e1785ee53505f5f072b9e0024d5

[karunesh (karunesh85)]

i want to instal to vlc player

[rerdey (raymond-m-erdey)]

The problem still exists in Ubuntu 8.10

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 1.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1

---------------
vlc (1.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
  * tighten build-dependencies on libschroedinger-dev, fixes FTBFS.
  * Following bugs have an associated and now closed upstream ticket in
    Launchpad: LP: #281295, #73449, #282567, #117640, #172938, #260918,
    #273685, #275043, #277834, #282394, #290753, #294136, #298925, #304265,
    #309728, #311742, #314038

vlc (1.0.0~rc2-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New Upstream Release Candidate
    + Closes: #527010, #491441, #508618, #522824
  * Delete patches which were picked from upstream
  * Refresh patches
  * Remove vlc-plugin-esd and vlc-plugin-arts as they have been removed
    by upstream
  * SONAME change for libvlccore
  * Add new symbols for libvlc2
  * Fix static libs compile
  * Use vlc-wrapper manpage from upstream
  * vlc.install: add drawable and screen was renamed x11_screen
  * vlc-nox.install: Add and remove modules added/removed upstream
  * Point out in NEWS the modules renamed or splited
  * Add links to upstream NEWS and co in vlc-nox
  * Version the depedency of libvlcore2 on vlc-data
  * Remove unnecessary "Section:" in debian/control

vlc (0.9.9a-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correct typo in 0.9.9a-2 changelog entry
  * Disable more optimization with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt
  * Cache the configure test results as we're running configure several
    times
  * Fix building as root
  * Fix the clean target
  * Remove unexistant config options
  * Better check commad line
  * Use all the procs on i386 and amd64
  * Build a version of libvlccore without altivec (Closes: #523035)
  * Fix typo (thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso)(Closes: #528044)
  * Reword the command line to get full logs in bug/presubj (Closes: #527012)
  * Remove duplicate "extended Settings" entry in context menu
   (Closes: #526603) - thanks to Matt Kraai

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:28:15 +0200