AVI files, DVD players, 0.99GB and Ubuntu
Most DVD players now-a-days support the AVI format. So it is highly convenient to watch downloaded content on the TV after burning it to a DVD±RW.
But while playing some downloaded content I observed a pattern. Files which are more than 1GB in size always had a problem with playback.
The playback would take time to start/stop/pause.
In-case i wanted to rewind or skip the file would screw up in that the audio/video lost synchronization.
This pissed me a lot until i thought about it. The answer was very simple. DVD players are made to read VOB files which have a maximum file size of 1GB (1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes). The maximum size that I have seen on DVD is 0.99GB. Hence files with more than 1GB size always posed a playback problem.
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