Strange AVI problem.

[kabanero]

Hi everybody,

I got strange problem yesterday with AVI file.
I captured 01h:13m:58s of video from my Sony D8 cam to PC with Vegas Video 3.0c via FireWire. I edited it little bit and then rendered a new AVI file (video only) with DV (Type 2) codec. The size of the new AVI file is 16GB. It has 131,095 frames and time is 01h:12m:54s.

No Problem:
When I loaded it in TMPGEnc 2.54, it showed correctly 131,095 frames. When I loaded it in Vegas Video timeline, it showed 131,095 frames, and 01h:12m:54s.

Problem:
When I tried to play this AVI with ATI File Player, WM Player 9, and PowerDVD, it played only 4m:57s. When I loaded it in CCE 2.66, it showed only 8,921 frames (=4m:57s). When I used CCE 2.62 I didn’t have problems with Vegas DV (Type 2) AVIs.

What’s going on? Has anybody had this problem? Who is guilty party?: Vegas Video DV AVI (Type 2), or CCE 2.66, or WMP 9 and ATI Player, or WinXP SP1?

Any help is appreciated.

[Kevin Henry]

16Gb!!!

JESUS! You're probably encountering the 2Gb FAT limit.

WinXP huh? I believe there is a setting to turn on or off the legacy 2Gb limit, you may not have turned it off.

Are you using FAT32 partitioning (if thats the right word) or NTFS?

[DJRumpy]

NTFS. It's not possible to have a file larger than 4GB with fat32. It sounds like there may be some corruption in the AVI. You didn't mention if you did any editing in any of your listed programs (excluding the players of course), or if you were just viewing it.

Kabanero, you'll find that 16GB is fairly small when working with captures. A raw AVI file for a typical movie can range anywhere from 30GB, to 80GB, depending on the quality, and resolution, and length.