[bug] libpar2: 2GB limit

[brenthuisman]

Alternatives: a good and current(ish) list available at https://github.com/animetosho/ParPar/blob/master/benchmarks/info.md Having a speed bump is nice, but phpar2, par2j are Windows only, would have to port... Parpar itself is create only and written in javascript, therefore not an option.

Candidates:

• Gopar
  • cross-compile is easy
  • will need to verify if it has a 2GB file limit
  • seems to read files into memory, so unsuitable for very large files (not an issue for me)
  • has fewer flags (e.g. can't create by percentage)
  • solved in 1.9.5: only diff with par2 is that gopar wants a space between flag and argument. also gopar does not have or need -B
  • does not use return values to indicate type of problem (just fail or succeed)
• par2cmdline-tbb
  • 2GB limit fixed
  • not significantly faster
  • requires Intel TBB
  • no longer maintained
  • source only available as part of other project: https://github.com/jcfp/par2tbb-chuchusoft-sources/releases/

[nikitakretov]

It appears that Animetosho's par2cmdline-turbo ( https://github.com/animetosho/par2cmdline-turbo ) solves both the 2GB file limit problem and UTF-8 support problem. And it is a drop-in replacement for par2cmdline. Hope it helps.

[brenthuisman]

I've just created a new release, v1.10, which I believe addresses this issue (since it includes par2cmdline-turbo which really contains the fix). Let me know if it didn't.