Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Value too large udf mkisofs

[Robert M. Stockmann]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Sean Johnson wrote:

> I've been using mkisofs 2.01a34 to burn large files via growisofs using 
> the -udf flag without any troubles. This is on a gentoo box. Just the 
> other day I put a 3.8GB avi file on a dvd.

Ok thanks a lot! That means one should upgrade your cdrtools and
related/derived burning software to 2.01a34 or higher.
Which means kudos should also go to Joerg Schilling for fixing the large 
file issue.

cheers,

Robert
> 
> 
> 
> Craig Lewis wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have used mkisofs to produce large single file dvd backups for some 
> > time now. I have recently changed jobs, and while I could go back to 
> > my previouis employer and get the source code I need, I would much 
> > rather find the 'right' code repository. What I found about a year ago 
> > was that all production versions of mkisofs will not allow you to 
> > create a single large file greater than 2 GB. I wrote someone a letter 
> > and they told me to create a UDF file system and to use the latest 
> > version. Now as I remember it, the server was down, maybe that was 
> > savanah? and I wrote again and got a code patch, or something like 
> > that! It worked great, even a windows machine could read our large 
> > udfs just fine, and I didn't worry about it because I figured surely, 
> > one year later, the latest version would have the support for large 
> > files. At that time I was  running slakware 8 or 9. Now I am  running 
> > Fedora core 2. 2.6.7 kernel version. I have just downloaded dvdrtools 
> > 0.1.6 and I am careful to run the /usr/local/bin/mkisofs version, but 
> > alas, it comes back with
> >
> > usr/local/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File 
> > outaa is too large - ignoring
> >
> > Can anyone point me to a more appropriate version or give advice as to 
> > how to construct an image of udf filesystem which is approximately 4.4
> > gigs in size (image of a single file).?
> >
> >
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