diff --git a/gst/avi/gstavimux.c b/gst/avi/gstavimux.c
index 3b945ca9b4..59319cec2a 100644
--- a/gst/avi/gstavimux.c
+++ b/gst/avi/gstavimux.c
@@ -1773,7 +1773,7 @@ gst_avi_mux_do_buffer (GstAviMux * avimux, GstAviPad * avipad)
 
   /* need to restart or start a next avix chunk ? */
   if ((avimux->is_bigfile ? avimux->datax_size : avimux->data_size) +
-      GST_BUFFER_SIZE (data) > 1024 * 1024 * 2000) {
+      GST_BUFFER_SIZE (data) > GST_AVI_MAX_SIZE) {
     if (avimux->enable_large_avi) {
       if ((res = gst_avi_mux_bigfile (avimux, FALSE)) != GST_FLOW_OK)
         return res;
diff --git a/gst/avi/gstavimux.h b/gst/avi/gstavimux.h
index 3b39285630..0cc690838d 100644
--- a/gst/avi/gstavimux.h
+++ b/gst/avi/gstavimux.h
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ G_BEGIN_DECLS
 /* this allows indexing up to 64GB avi file */
 #define GST_AVI_SUPERINDEX_COUNT    32
 
+/* max size */
+#define GST_AVI_MAX_SIZE    0x40000000
+
 typedef struct _gst_avi_superindex_entry {
   guint64 offset;
   guint32 size;