[ioquake3] AVI recording, files split into 2 GB chunks

[Nerius Landys]

> Why is it always all or nothing with some people?  If someone's going to
> muck with stuff, why not give the option to have the old functionality as
> well?
>
> I dunno, g_video_chunk 1 would put it into 2 GB chunks, g_video_chunk 0
> would write to one big file for each recording session.
>
> I'm sure the necessary conditional statements to make something like that
> would be inelegant or ugly from a coding perspective but it would make
> great sense and be really functional from a user perspective.
>
> Tigger, you may also want to give more information.  What editing programs
> are you using where you're NOT seeing the same stitching issues that
> Nerius was?  I haven't done much video editing myself but the few times
> I've tried joining video files together have always seemed hit or miss.
> Any suggestions for Nerius or myself or anyone else who might actually see
> a need for this ability to write one large file?

Stitching files together has always led to little artifacts in my videos.

The code change of [conditionally] writing to one big AVI file seems
like a large undertaking.

I don't think I could be the guy to do this.  I don't know the AVI
file structure at all (although I am willing to read up on it), and my
C coding skills are very limited (I'm used to doing stuff in Java,
which is higher-level language).  So I'm going to leave this in your
guys' hands, and in the meantime I'll be keeping a close eye on this
thread.  Thanks for your time.