[MPlayer-users] can't seek through complete avi file (1.9G) - any hints?

[Matija Grabnar]

> But there has been a lively discussion of filesystems on the LUGG
> mailinglist recently, and apparently ext2 and ext3 can't handle files
> bigger than 2GB, you need either ReiserFS or XFS for that.
That is NOT true! I have been recording directly from TV into files much bigger
than 2GB on both ext2 and ext3 filesystems. 

What you do need is a recent glibc and kernel at least 2.4.