4GB video file limit removed?

One of my big gripes with the AppleTV was the 4GB video file limit. Can anyone confirm whether this limit has been officially removed?
The reason I ask is that I recently had a 4.02GB movie file in my library which is shared to the AppleTV and I was surprised to see it listed on the AppleTV shared movies. It played fine. I have since tried a movie file over 6GB and this too plays fine.
I hope this is a feature and not something that Apple will remove in future updates.

jtw13 wrote:
Previously, any movie file over 4GB was never synced to the AppleTV or shown as available for streaming. My understanding at the time was that the AppleTV software did not support over 4GB, as iTunes itself would load them and play them fine.
So it seemed.
If you look at the maths, a 32-bit number can store file poisition data (to the nearest byte) up to a maximum of 4GB. In order to reference files over 4GB, you needed to use 64-bit addressing.
Absolutely.
I haven't seen anything official, which is why I am asking.
This is a user to user forum so you won't get an official reply (usually).
My answer is based on several anecdotal reports here that >4GB files have been usable of late.
As far as I can remember there was never an 'official' 4GB limit in the first place, just again anecdotally in user experience it appeared to be so.
AC

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