[svlug] creating a big binary file

[Anthony Ettinger]

On 10/11/07, Kristian Erik Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/07, Anthony Ettinger <anthony at chovy.com> wrote:
> > I want to take a 750mb avi file and add to it so it is exactly
> > 1gb...how can I do this? (i'm not concerned about the quality of the
> > file, only that is binary data for testing bandwidth).
>
> The solutions mentioned previously don't interpret the video format.
> AVI is just a container and can be one of any number of formats.  You
> could make a 1GB video with ffmpeg or mencoder.  If you are lazy, just
> insert blank frames of black.  However, obviously these will compress
> too well in most formats.  Maybe adding random noisy frames is better
> for such a format.  I would use cinelerra or kino if you have no idea
> how to use the command line options for the other tools above...
> --
> Kristian Erik Hermansen
>

It doesn't matter much to me, i just don't want the file to be able to
be compressed at all.


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