QuickTime Player 7.0.2 won't load files larger than 10GB

Question

I have 30GB MJPEG video, it's about 90 minutes long. When I load it in QuickTime Player 7.0.2, it shows only the first 33 minutes of the video. It looks as if the player loaded 10GB, then stopped loading because of some internal hardcoded limit. I'm thinking about posting this to Apple Feedback form for QuickTime, and maybe turn this into a bugreport, but wanted to check it here first. Does anyone else know about this problem? Maybe someone reported it to Apple already and I'm just wasting my time. Thanks.

Answer 1

Since you've obviously passed the 4 gig size, I suggest that the QuickTime Player application is hitting a "end of file" error. Common when multiple files are "pasted" together.
This 30GB MJPEG video I'm trying to load in QT 7.0.2 was not pasted together. It's been produced by recompressing another large video in VirtualDub, popular Windows video editor. It's been produced as one single file from the beginning. No joining/pasting files at all.
The "timestamp" in the file is telling QT Player that the end of the file is reached. It quits playing. Acceptable?
Nope, not acceptable. Why only QT Player cannot load full file? Why VirtualDub and any other player (Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic for example) load the file properly, all 30 gigabytes of it and play it from the beginning to the end?
Simply hitting the spacebar should resume playback.
Simply hitting spacebar actually jumps to the first frame and then plays video from the beginning.
If the 30GB MJPEG (a format for preserving quality) were "exported" to a non editing format (say H.264) wouldn't the entire file play?
If it were exported, it definitely would. How do you propose to export it to H.264 if QT Player can't even load MJPEG properly? Yes, I can easily export first 10GB of that video, but how do you think I should export the rest?