Capturing problems

[Wolfmancatsup]

Hi all - I'm trying to capture from some of my old laserdiscs, and I'm having serious problems capturing to .AVI.
I'm running XP Pro and all partitions are ntfs - the one I use for video recordings is around 90 Gb in size.
When I capture with Premiere I get as far as about 6100 frames (about 4 Gb on disc) and the recording stops. If I try Ulead Media Studio the recording carries on past this point but it looks as if just about every frame is dropped from that point onwards.
I've tried error-checking & defragging but no joy. This happens with all the discs I've tried - the picture onscreen (direct from the capture device - an ATI VIVO) when I'm capturing looks fine, even after I've reached the point at which the capture programs have problems.
Any (polite!) suggestions?

Wc.

[bunyip]

Something to consider ...

It could be your bios's view of the disk.

Check the CMOS settings and see if the bios recognises the disk as 90gb, some bios's will only see it as as a 64gb disk (even though Windows sees it as 90gb).

This will cause false disk interpretation and produce unpredicable results.

If this is the case, try creating two partitions - neither over 64gb.

[Wolfmancatsup]

Bunyip - thanks for the suggestion, but having given it a go (I reduced the partition size to 50Gb) it's still stopping at just over 4 Gb. I'm beginning to wonder if maybe Windows is screwed up and a re-install will sort things out. I've tried changing capture drivers and the main video drivers to no avail.
However I get to sort it out I'll put a note on this thread in case anyone else has a similar problem.
Thanks again,

Wc.

PS Forgot to say that I tried a reformat of the partition as well, but still no luck...

[Wolfmancatsup]

Ok, so it was me being silly - 'twas because of this stupid 4Gb .avi limit - I can get around it by using VirtualDub which grabs the stream as groups of avi's within one big avi, which I had the whole time - although I do get some lost frames, it does capture up to my hard drive's limits...