4gb File Limitation

[AllGood]

Is there any work around for the 4gb file limitation? Basiclly what i was doing was wanting to put some 720p mkv movies on to it, all over 4gb. Not thinking about the file size limitation it errored out.

 

[ARich91]

Best bet would be to put an NTFS partitioned sd card on it, and put your big files on that. I don't know if the phone can read an NTFS partition, though. But it's worth a shot.

 

[AllGood]

Best bet would be to put an NTFS partitioned sd card on it, and put your big files on that. I don't know if the phone can read an NTFS partition, though. But it's worth a shot.

I have not tried it but have read on other forums that Android does not support NTFS, this was my first thought too.

 

[esdwa]

Typical 2-hour movie fitted for Vibrant (800x480 30fps) with 2Mbps stream for best quality should be not larger than 2GB. Not sure what would I need 4GB files compatibility for?
For movies encoded in 720p format (1280x720 res), give me one good reason to store such movies on Vibrant. Cheers, Steve

 

[AllGood]

Typical 2-hour movie fitted for Vibrant (800x480 30fps) with 2Mbps stream for best quality should be not larger than 2GB. Not sure what would I need 4GB files compatibility for?
For movies encoded in 720p format (1280x720 res), give me one good reason to store such movies on Vibrant. Cheers, Steve

Good Reason: Already have 720P files on my computer that are any where from 4.5-8gb, to be able to just drag and drop is a lot easier then having to re encode them if i want to watch them on the Vibrant. No one mentioned them being stored but say i want to watch a movie while the gf is dragging me shopping it would be nice just to drag and drop the file.

 

[esdwa]

This make sense when you upload just one movie at the time for some event (like running for two hours on gym treadmill - like I do) to kill some time. Not sure if it make sense to upload more due to memory limitation (32GB on card and little over 12GB internal). But I understand your point.

On the other hand you forget this is just a smartphone and demanding NTFS implementation because of this particular need would be just going overboard.

I have this saying, "Give me your finger and pull all your hand out". Sounds familiar.

 

[zcheeley]

here is your good reason

i have a xoom with 1280x800 resolution and want to actually use all those pixels while i watch a movie (demo it to customers)

 

[dylanear]

I'm new to Android so forgive the ignorance, but where is the restriction exactly? Is this the limit of YAFFS2? What about EXT3? Will Android mount that? It's hold huge files. I think 2.3 will use (can use?) EXT4.