captured MPEG will not open!! XP just Freezes

[bwpb]

Good afternoon,

I have a DVDxpress USB capture device. I recently captured a 3 hr vhs tape to MPEG DVD quality.

When I view the file in windows explorer, I can right clik and get the properties, but when I try to open in anyprogram, XP just freezes. the MPEG file is 5.3 GB.

Also in the DVd authoring software, when I try to import the file into the timeline , it freezes up as well. When I go to task manager, Explorer and the program are not frozen.

Please help. Is the file too big.... Do I need more Ram to handle a big file like that?

My system =
Dell 8200
Windows XP Home
512 MB Ram
Pent 4 1.9 GHZ

[jameshgross]

What DVD authoring program, what player? What DVD writer?
You could have a bad file.
Re-capture a small part of the VHS and see if it will then work.

[bwpb]

I think I might have figured out the problem.
But any reinforcement would be great.

I have two physical drive in my Dell. Both 80GB. The master drive is almost full. this is where XP, and any other software is installed. I think there are only 2 GB or so left. If i am tyring to open a 5 1/2 GB file or so on a drive that only has 2 GB... would that be causing the freeze? Becuase the paging file for XP would be located on the 1st master disk. and this one, would not have enough space to make the virtual Memory make the paging file big enough to load the huge 5 1/2 gig file??

The 5 Gb file is coming from the slave drive where there is about 70 GB free.

I guess I could just free up some space and then I would be good to go.

[Dilemma]

I would suggest capturing again, and configure your capturing utility to split the file at 3 gigs(it should let you do that). If I'm not mistaken, XP has a 4 gig limit for any file.

[tdan]

If I'm not mistaken, XP has a 4 gig limit for any file.

Only for FAT32. XP with NTFS does not have this limitation.