Is segmentation of avi neccessary when capturing from VHS

[Ninja_N]

Been so long since Ive done this conversion I cant remeeber.

I know windows has a 2gb limit on avi file size, but when capturing with VDub and then converting to SVCD, can you just capture one big avi, say 50gb worth, then convert all at once to SVCD using TMPG/CCE instead of the small 2gb files from segmentation. As I wont need to view the avi file at all until its converted to SVCD.

My process, VHS capture with VDUB and huffy codec ->
frameserve with VDUB using desired filters ->
SVCD using CCE 3pass VBR

[Tommy]

Yes, but you have to be using a windows system formated to ntfs.

[TheNob]

I agree. This is almost my exact process and I am formated to ntfs. Works fine.

[Ninja_N]

Hi could you elaborate some more on a
"windows system formatted to ntfs". Is this the only way?
I am currently running win98se, and will be using win2000 on second computer.

[Greg12]

Right now you are most likly using FAT32 file allocation tables.

These are used by Windows 9x programs. No file can exceed 4 gigabytes.

NTFS is a different disk partition system, in this system files can be up to like 1 petrabyte. (You can't reach this limit with today's technonlogy)

Your windows 2000 system supports NTFS but your 98se does not.

[Ninja_N]

Thanks, so is there some reformatting required then when I install win2000 on my second comp. And when its in NTFS file system, then I can capture an avi as big as I like and encode using VDub and CCE/TMPG with no probs?