Have you ever had this happen to you: you record a long video on your phone, then go back to check it out and you discover it has been split in two or more clips? Or, worse but much more rare, the phone just stopped recording at some point? Well, you see, Android has a size limit on the videos it records — 4 GB is the absolute maximum. That’s why our handsets have to work around this by cutting a long video into clips.

It’s a commit in the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) gerrit, which states that Android will use a 64 bit offset in mpeg4writer (as opposed to 32 bit previously). This should raise the limit “considerably”, though no exact ceiling is given. In one test, Google was able to record a single 32 GB video without a hitch. In another, the phone’s entire capacity was filled with a single video, not clipped at any point.

So, video buffs, rejoice! 4K is about to become that much more viable.