[Flac-dev] creating flacs over 2GB

[Josh Coalson]

--- Gyürki István <istvan.gyurki at freemail.hu> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I was struggling with the need of creating flac files over 2GB
> recently.
> Both the command line flac and my util using stream encoder returned
> FLAC__STREAM_ENCODER_CLIENT_ERROR when reaching that point.
> 
> Finally I made a small change in libFLAC/stream_encoder.c in
> file_tell_callback_ function.
> I replaced the ftello call to fgetpos. This seems to work very well
> under win32. 
> 
> Based on the description at
>
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Portable-Positioning.html
> I think this should be also portable solution.
> 
> Hope this small change could help other users, too.

the 2GB limit should only be a problem on windows with msvc.  thanks
for the tip, I will look into fgetpos for that case, hopefully it
will work with msvc6 which is what I compile the releases with.

Josh



       
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