Its happened again! aaarrrggghh!

[welz400]

Well I have just been using TMPGenc to convert a 700mb avi, 1hour 30min file, and it has stopped the process at 97% with a stream writing error message.
The 97% is 4.1Gb, with 3.57Gb space left!
Help please, someone tell me what is going on, as this is the 3rd time this has happened to me.

Thanks

[HillJack]

I see you're running Windows 2000. Is the hard drive that you're saving the file to NTFS or FAT? Sounds like a 4gig limit problem to me.

[Ziffelpig]

If Fat is your file system it is the most likely reason for your problem.
You can covert your fat drive to ntfs by using the commandline and running this
"convert c: /fs:ntfs" without the quotes (microsoft provides a built in utility)
Simple and painless, and no more 4GB file limitations.

[HaZMaTiK]

also not know if you got this on but make sure you directshow filter in your enviromental options is set to 2 or higher

[coyote]

are you sure that your avi file is in perfect condition....if tmpgenc comes across a bad frame it may stop

[Gazorgan]

Use VDUB to check your source for bad frames; Bad frames cause TMPGEnc to barf.

ALso, if your fat32 it will also crash when you hit 4 GB(smells like your problem).

[coyote]

If you do have bad frames...try using one of the repair programs listed on this site:

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?section=12#12

[welz400]

Thanks for all your replies.
first I will check for bad frames, then it looks like changing from a FAT32 to a NTFS filesystem.

Thanks again. I'll post back what happens

[welz400]

Well, there were no bad frames in either of the 2 avi files I checked with vdub. Those were the ones which gave me the stream writing errors with TMPGenc.
Anyway, I converted the FAT32 file system to NTFS, and now I have a 5.1Gb file which TMPGenc is converting for me.

Thanks again for your help and advice