Feature Request: Large File Support by default

[unkn0wn]

In Linux Ubuntu 24.04 by using a command like

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exiftool -All= test.mp4 results in Error: End of processing at large atom (LargeFileSupport not enabled) if the file is bigger than 4 Gigabyte.

Using a command like

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exiftool -api largefilesupport=1 -All= test.mp4 solves the problem. But i would like exiftool to support big files by default, especially when working with reg. expressions. and big amounts of datafiles    All people i know using exiftool do not know why it is not a default setting.

[StarGeek]

See this post.

You can set it to be always on using the Options section of an .exiftool_config file. See the example.config file and add a line to the Options section

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     LargeFileSupport => 1,
Edit: I actually gave an example in the post directly above the one I linked above.

[Phil Harvey]

I think there have been enough people requesting this change, so...

ExifTool 12.88 will make LargeFileSupport 2 by default, and issue a warning when a large atom is encountered.  Set this to 1 to avoid the warning.  LargeFileSupport settings of 0 and 1 will behave the same as older versions.

- Phil