Windows 98 Apparent 4 Gig AVI Limit

[NiteCretr]

I used VirtualDub to capture input from a VCR and
it bonked out at 4 Gig with an AVICap Error. I
slyly switched tactics and enabled split capture in
VirtualDub with a limit of 2 Gig for each file. This
worked fine. I then opened the first file in
VirtualDub and it grabbed all six segments. Still
fine. I go to save the files as a single AVI and I
again get smacked down with an AVI error at the 4 Gig
file size. What gives? Is this a Windows 98 AVI
limitation? I could have sworn I did this before.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
NiteCretr

[Truman]

It is a limitation of FAT32 OS. It did not work before. Is there a special reason to save it as one large file?

[NiteCretr]

I'm trying to capture and convert a 124 minute
videotape into a VCD. I captured at 352x240 resolution
using the Huffy codec and now have six 2 gig files.
I'll need to convert these to mpeg-1 before burning
to CD with Nero. I usually use TMPGENC to encode,
but I'm a little stumped as to the best way to proceed.
Do I encode each 2 gig segment and then join the
individual mpegs into a single file before burning,
assuming that the final mpeg will even fit on a single
CD?

Thanks,
NiteCretr

[Truman]

You could use VirtualDub to frameserve to TMPG. Just open the first captured segment in Vdub, set whatever you want(filters etc.) and start the frameserver. Vdub will serve segment by segment to TMPG and you will end with one MPEG.
Maybe TMPG loads all segments too. You may try that, I don't know.

[NiteCretr]

After banging my head on my keyboard for thirty minutes, ripping my hair out in angst, and finally baying at the moon during a bout of temporary insanity, I managed to get VirtualDub to framserve to TMPGENC. A very cool thing, this frameserving. I wasn't aware of it. A little tricky at first though. TMPGENC wanted to keep locking up on me. According to the timer, I have about ten hours until the encoding is finished (I selected Very High Quality). Just enough time for a few hundred games of Virtua Fighter 2 on my Saturn.

Thanks again,
NiteCretr