Virtualdub spill question

[robwalford]

With Virtualdubs spill system you can capture video to several harddrives and overcome the problem with 4 GB limit.
Can you spill to the same drive? ie: can you create 2 or more 4 gb files by specifying the spill drive as the same one?
Has anyone tried this?
Alternatively, (just thought of this!) i suppose you could create several 4gb partitions on the same drive, in which case they would all have separate drive letters.

[thegig]

I've done it and it seems to work fine.

[HillJack]

Yes, you can spill to a single drive and it works fine (I used to do it before making a single NTFS partition for single file captures instead).

First, specify a single spill drive...


Then, when your ready to capture, enable Multi-Segment Capture...


And you'll be left with a bunch of 2gb avi's

[robwalford]

I assume that you still cant join, say, 2x 4gb files to make a single 8 gb file anyway because of the same initial problem?

[deadpac]

VirtualDub can spill [segment] onto one harddrive without any real problems; a slight side effect of capturing to only one drive is that when you start the capture, Virtual Dub will incorrectly display the amount of space and time that is left. So unless you can tell offhand how much space you need and have that amount, before capturing, then go ahead and spill [segment] onto one drive.

AVI_IO supposedly does not have this little side effect and can capture to one drive without any problems; but you'll have to verify this on your own, because I've never had the need to use AVI_IO.

As for creating 4gb partitions for capturing, that's just WRONG on so many levels; unless you are creating partitions for other OS's such as Linux, Win 2000.

Create any size partition you want that's atleast greater than 1.9gb.
I.E.
I have a 80gb capture drive partitioned off like this:
6gb c:\ [primary drive running Windows 2000]
15gb d:\ [primary capture drive]
15gb e:\ [secondary capture drive]
20gb f:\ [storage drive for storing files]
30gb g:\ [Linux drive]

I only use the d:\ and e:\ drives to capture AVI segments.

Virtualdub will capture initially 2gb to d:\ and then spill over to e:\, and after 2gb is filled on e:\, virtualdub will automatically spill back over to d:\ and then back to e:\ and so on, until there is no more space left to capture or I stop the capture.

[Quvix]

I understand how to do so and Iv'e read the FAQ's, but it still wont go over the 4GB limit even with the spill segment?? Do you need Windows NT or Windows 2000 to do so? Is it because that the spill segment operate in Windows Me? Does it really matter? Any advice would be deeply appreciated...

[deadpac]

It's not supposed to go over 4gb, if you read the FAQ then you should know that Virtual Dub will capture segments of ONLY 2GBS and less. It can't capture segments over 4gb. The whole point of Virtual Dub capping segmented AVI's is to work around the 4gb limit imposed by FAT32 partition, by capturing 2gb AVI segments that in the end can be viewed as one file, even though the video itself is spread across 2gb segments [seamlessly].

If you want to create files [REGARDLESS of thier type] to be over 4GB
then you need to change the partition of your drive from FAT32 to NTFS. Since Windows 9x, ME won't run on an NTFS partition, you must use an OS that can run on an NTFS partition, that being Windows NT, 2000, or XP.


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