Which AVI codec - win 98 & 2 gb limit

[fingers]

I want to convert some videos I have on VHS to SVCD.

I know that the best result would be achieved using the Huffy AVI codec but unfortunately I'm using win 98 and due to the 2gb limit, I can't use it. Also I can't use Virtual Dub to capture as segmented AVI, as I have an ATI card that uses WDM drivers, so virtual dub doesn't work with that. Also capturing to segmented AVI isn't that great because when I merge the encoded mpg's I get a high pitched blip sound at the merge point...

I had been trying to use the DIVX 5.04 codec, the file size was right, and can be easily converted to mpeg2, but the problem is that I see jagged lines whenever there is quick horizontal movement, so it must be the codec because I don't have the same problem with other codecs...

What I'm looking for is an AVI codec, that will let me fit approximately 15 minutes of good quality video within 2gb of space, that will work with the ATI MMC... Also since the ATI MMC doesn't allow you to capture using 480x480 resolution, what's the best setting to choose from those available?

Any help would be greatly appreciated... and yes I know all of these problems would be solved if I simply moved to XP, and NTFS, but I don't want to go to that trouble just to capture some video...

[Richard_G]

Before upgrading to Win XP and DV, I used to capture analogue video under 98SE using an ATI AIW 128. Rather than use the later WDM drivers, I loaded an earlier ATI driver that gives VfW support (It was version 6232 or 6323, something like that and was listed on the ATI website as being the one needed if legacy VfW support was required). I then captured with VirtualDub and the PicVideo MJPEG codec (from www.jpg.com). I used the codec compression setting at 18 (out of 20) which gave no noticable compression artifacts and about 11 minutes of video before I hit the 2 Gb limit in 640 x 480 resolution. I was using a 1.33GHz Athlon, 256 Mb of PC133 RAM on a KT266 chipset motherboard and never dropped a single frame.

Hope this is of use.

Richard

[Champion_R]

Most capture software has a segmented capture function to bypass the 4GB FAT32 file size limit and I'm sure the same techniques can be used to bypass the 2GB limit