Win98 file size limit

[Elimac]

Hi all,

I have a DC10+ capture card, which only has drivers up to the Win98 OS.
So, I am stuck with this operating system.

When capturing during some time with this card, with good quality settings, it generates 2GB files in sequence. That is, it brakes the AVI file in 2GB pieces. Since I want to convert to MPEG-2, and MPEG-2 is not very friendly for editing (I repeatdly tried to join the fractional MPEG-2 files without success, its hard to join VBR files without a noticeble gap in between), I was told I should Join the AVI file before encoding to SVCD.

My question is then: does Win 98 support this ? Sometimes I have 12 GB size of captured video!!

Anyone else that works with DC10+ ? How to overcome the file size problem (in raw data) ?

Many thanks,
Elimac

[Dave B]

A practical solution to this problem is to load the first segment of your video into VirtualDub. If the files are sensibly named then VirtualDub will automatically prompt you to join the subsequent files onto the initial AVI. If it doesn't prompt you then you can join them manually through File -> Append AVI segment.

Note that the files are not yet being physically merged but Virtual Dub will allow you to operate on the files as if they were just one stream.

You can then start the VDub frameserver to create a fake signpost AVI file that you can open into virtually all of your faviourite encoders/editors.

Read more about the VDub frameserver below
http://www.virtualdub.org/docs_frameserver

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Have you tried capturing using Virtual Dub? You can automatically set it to capture files into 2GB sections. Once you open it up in the editor the subsequent sections will automatically load in. You're right that there are limitations to the file size, it's due the FAT32 filesystem used by windows 98/SE/ME.

[mikerios]

maximum AVI is 2 gb under fat32, maximum mpeg2 file is 4gb under fat32, your best bet would be to upgrade to ntfs ( or dual boot to it ) and get another drive for just capturing, editing and make that a ntfs drive.