Re: GStreamer 0.01

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 23:03 -0400, muppet wrote:

> 57965714285 / 2^32
> 13
>
> The number is 13 times too big to fit into a 32-bit integer.  Perl's  
> IV (integer value) is guaranteed to be as big as a pointer on your  
> platform.  If you're on a 32-bit platform, IV is 32 bits, and the 64- 
> bit count of nanoseconds in the file is being truncated.

Yeah, that's exactly the problem.  I've been trying to fight it with
various approaches but nothing succeeded.

> The GStreamer bindings will probably have to depend on Math::BigInt  
> for these numbers.

The perl-xs guys suggested converting numbers to/from PVs (Perl strings)
and tell users to use Math::BigInt for calculations.  I'll see if this
works out.

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten