Resume / Continue Play only works on files smaller than 2 GB

[onetruecliff]

VLC is not consistent with resuming / continuing play from videos. After a lot of testing, it seems that if the video is over the size of 2.0 GB, it will not remember the position you left off from. Is this a problem other people have noticed? Is this a bug I should report? Or it is intentional? Does this happen on Windows?

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Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 20.10 Release: 20.10 Operating System: Kubuntu 20.10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.74.0 Qt Version: 5.14.2 Kernel Version: 5.8.0-34-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 580 Series

VLC version: 3.0.11.1-2

If anyone knows a workaround for this behavior, I would love to know.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

VLC remembers the time, not the byte offset. This has nothing to do with file size.

Sounds more like VLC cannot seek the file. Notably AVI format sucks over 2 GiB.