I cant capture more than 4gigs of avi what gives?

[luis2626]

I'm using my AIW 8500dv to capture avi and it stops at 3.99gigs. Thats about 11mins. I dont understand why . I have enough for 1hr 30min of avi I can capture. What do I need to capture more than 4gigs? Also can Virtualdub edit a 10 gig avi? Thats as high as an avi I'd like to capture. Please help and thank you for reading

[SLK001]

You need an NTFS type of file structure. Available in W2000P, Win NT and (I think) Win XP. Otherwise, your files are limited to 2^32 size.

[leebo]

"I'm using my AIW 8500dv to capture avi and it stops at 3.99gigs."


Well, this is news! Time to get the big guns in on this. I'm sure with enought research, we'll get tot the bottom of this, just as I'm sure you did a search for this subject b4 posting.

[kitty]

I am tempted to say reformat your C drive to NTFS but you might just do it...

If you have stuff on your capture drive look at Partition Magic. You want to end up with a NTFS partition or drive.

[luis2626]

Well, this is news! Time to get the big guns in on this. I'm sure with enought research, we'll get tot the bottom of this, just as I'm sure you did a search for this subject b4 posting.

Thanks, your a great help

[leebo]

Cool!
I don't usually get that. Thanks.

[luis2626]

I am tempted to say reformat your C drive to NTFS but you might just do it...

If you have stuff on your capture drive look at Partition Magic. You want to end up with a NTFS partition or drive.

Forgive. I'm new to this. I have read over and over on the newbie and capturing forums for this exact subject matter and found no luck. I'm trying to get a better understanding for my problem.

For starters, are you trying to tell me that if my drive, where I would recieve my capture, needs to be completely empty in order to capture more than 4gigs. If thats the case I'd be better off getting a second 40gig7200rpm($90) drive instead of purchasing Partition Magic($70). Then devote it for avi capture. Don't laugh if that's stupid. I'm still trying to understand this.

[Mirror_Image]

Take a look at this link:

http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1227

It is a very brief introduction to the differences between the FAT32 and NTFS file systems.

[kitty]

Looking at your specs I would recommend getting a second hard drive. 40 GB is fine, the more the better as always. 7200 rpm if at all possible. When you format the drive in XP select NTFS. Using the NT file system your files can be huge and there is no 4GB limit.

If you go under properties on your current 40gb hard drive & see that your disk is formatted as FAT32 then that is causing your limit. Hard to change without reloading your whole computer hence getting a second capture HD would be implest and cost effective.

[leebo]

If you're capturing AVI, then AVI itself has a four gig limit, NTFS or nor.

There is a program called AVI_IO that you can use to capture. It will break up your AVI's into 4 gigs or less (whatever you set). I think it's $25 and I know it works great.

The writer even answers every email if you have questions.

Much simpler than NTFS or Partition Magic.

But you still should get a seperate capture drive.

[nutty1]

If you're "okay" with your captured files "broken up" into multiple, smaller avi files less than 4gig, then you can use VirtualDub. VirtualDub is freeware, and you can download it from this site. Look for it in the tools section on left hand side of page. That'll save you $25, and there are lots of documentation on it in this website. Look in the Capture and Convert section for guides on using VirtualDub.

Hope this helps

[Lamont Cranston]

If you're capturing AVI, then AVI itself has a four gig limit, NTFS or nor.

AVI OpenDML files are not limited to 4G. The 'old' AVI files were limited to 4G and some software further limited them to 2G. To create AVI OpenDML files > 4G you also must use NTFS file system.

[leebo]

I don't have experience w virtual dub. Does it capture w/o skipping frames at the split?

Also, did Luis ever mention his OS?

[Mirror_Image]

did Luis ever mention his OS?

Yes; just hover your mouse cursor over his "computer details" button.

[nutty1]

leebo wrote I don't have experience w virtual dub. Does it capture w/o skipping frames at the split?

VDUB does not lose any frames at the split, and will name the avi sequentially based on the original name you give the avi. After you've captured with VDUB, you just open the first avi file, and it will load all of the other avis associated with it. At that point, you just execute a "SAVE AS Newfilename", and you're done.

[Nelson37]

If the Vdub split works for you, great. I found that while I could cap without the split with no frame drops, using the split mode DID cause massive frame droppage. This may have been solvable but I went to MMC for capture and NTFS anyway.

[vhelp]

luis2626,

First, you didn't say what you harddrive size is, 40g, what?
and, how or if you hvae it partitioned, as you said you only WANT to
deal the 10gigs, so I'm assuming you have approx 10gigs for capturing.

AVI_IO: 1
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Assuming the above to be correct, you have maybe two choices here,
* in AVI_IO, set your capturing size, ie,
menu: capture settings, and at bottom, where you see something like,
"c:\capture.avi", just double click this and assuming your correct drive
or partition is the choice, clikc inside the box
marked: Use MB on this drive: [0 ] and make it 10000 (thats, 10,000 for 10g)
BUT, note how much space you have available or left, by looking at your right.
This will tell you how much space is CURRENTLY left for captruing, and just
adjust your MB accordingly. But, for continous 10g capturing (or any size you
choose) set according to your capturing goals.
* what AVI_IO will do is create about 10 or so, *.avi dummy files. This helps
speed up avi_io access/writes during capturing, and is why avi_io is quite
fast and framedrops are usually zero cause of this.
* And, make sure the the [x] Assign Sessionnumbers [0] is checked so that you
see all those dummy files list in sequential order.
* Also make sure the Frames per Seconds [29.970] is set for NTSC, PAL=[25]

VDUB: 2
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* I'm not sure of yet, he, he...
* menu: Captures/ and check off, "Enable multi Segment Capture"
* then, go to menu: Captures/Capture Drives...
* and the rest is obvious. IGNORE spill drives completely., so if you can't
figure out there here on, then you're domber than domb.

-vhelp

[leebo]

Another thing about AVI_IO:

If you can't capture more than 4 gigs, don't set it to 10, set it to just under 4gigs.

There will be no frame drop at the split. The files will play back seamlessly in programs like Premiere, etc.

There is a demo you can download that limits you to I think three segments, so at 4 gigs thats a total of 12 gig captures.

Go to the tools section of this web site, find "capturing" and there is a direct link to the demo.