PowerVCR record length

[dream5368]

I am using PowerVCR and I tried to record 3 hours of programming but it seems after 2 hours, the file is corrupted. Has anyone else had a similiar problem and is there a solution. My system

WIN98SE
AMD 1.2
20GB hard drive 5GB free
768MB RAM

[spiderman2k1]

Are these files MPEG or AVI you have to give more info when you ask for help. Your using windows 98Se 95 98 ME use fat 16 or FAT 32 Fat 32 can only hold one file no bigger than four gig's NTFS can have a file as big as 100gig just one file if you capture with windows 98 and you hit the 4 gig limit your file might be messed up

[dream5368]

I was saving the file as a VCD NTSC and the total size was 1.8 and I still had 5 GB free.

[Vejita-sama]

To possible problems come directly to mind. 1) Avi files have a 2GB max limit. Most programs these days just ignore that and will make an avi as large as you want, but most is not all. 2) win98 runs on fat32 partitions which have a 4GB max file size, period. If you want to do a direct capture to one file (esp uncompressed) it's going to go over that. So you might want to think about upgrading to win2k/winxp/winNT and going to NTFS.

All is not lost thou. Many programs have a 'spill system' which will capture your files in smaller pieces. I know that VDub and AVI_IO do at least. When I was running winME I set VDub to capture 1.9GB file segments, then used avisynth to generate a script file that linked them all together for encoding in TMPGenc/CCE.

Not sure if powerVCR can do that or not.

[Supreme2k]

One thing about PowerVCR which prevents it from being the best DVR (IMO) is that it chunks up the recordings into 600M pieces.

[vance43211]

you can change that

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=141548&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

[dream5368]

I have change the registry so the file is not split after 600MB. Like I stated before, I have recorded programs up to 1 1/2 hours(900MB) without a problem but when I tried to do three hours, the first 2 1/2 hours but the last 1/2 hour was messed up. It was running as if it was being fast-forwarded.