TMPGENC don't support Huge Avi file (generated with Huffyuv)

[Fonzie]

I'm satisfied with the VCD's I make. I use a pinacle card (studio PCTV) capture with MAGIX , edit it with MAGIX, save the result as an AVI file with the Huffyuv codec. But when the AVI files are bigger than 2 GB (10minutes or so) than TMPGENC can't open it anymore.
I USe TMPGENC to make the VCD.
I migrated to XP to have an restriction (theoraticly) on 2 terrabyte files.
Who knows what to do?

[kcjohnclark]

Try formattin your capture drive to NTFS... it solved it for me....

[Fonzie]

I made the change to NTFS, with FAT32 I wouldn't be able to get further than 4GB

[spidey]

I'd bet your drive is either Fat or Fat 32 still, formatting to NTFS will solve it, or you may need to increase the priority of the DirectShow Vfapi plugin in TMPG.

Can you move the capture off the partition to another one, and format it to NTFS ?

[Fonzie]

I Made my D-drive (the working drive for videos) NTFS. I made already files bigger than 4GB. So the NTFS must be OK! MPLAYER has also problems with these files . Only virtual dub can open it , it sends a message while opening it "reconstructing missing indexblock'

[Tommy]

The problem doesn't sound like its fat or NTFS. If it was a limitation of the file system (say with fat32) you would not be able to write a file over 4gb. The fact that you can open the file with Vdub means its not the file system limitation.

Once upon a time and in some older programs AVI files were limited to 2gb, however most programs these days don't care about that. It sounds like the program you are using to create the avi files is the problem. You mentioned that you were using a pinnicle card, do you have studio DV (comes with many pinnicle cards) if so try using it. If it works you'll know.

[KWG22]

Hi guys,
I would be interested to see how this plays out as well, as I, along my journey to get my computer editing, discovered Magix Video DeLuxe. I liked it a lot, but it didn't accept clips with audio from my Matrox Rainbow Runner capture card. I have a Pinnacle DC10Plus(which I knew of and what I should have tried from the beginning) now, and like the Studio program a lot also, but I was thinking I might want to use Magix to do some things, but hadn't yet tried to use any clips brought in with my Pinnacle board. It's encouraging that your pinnacle board worked with Magix. But if Magix is causing problems with the clips it generates, of course I'd want to know that too.

[Truman]

Frameserve with Avisynth to TMPG.

[frenetic]

frameserving 2+GB files from VDub also work in TMPGEnc

[Fonzie]

Magix seems to be the problem! I captured 2,4GB with virtualdub and it causes no problem.
I like the usage of Magix for editting purposes. So could someone help me find a solution to get the Bug fixed in Magix.

[Betamax]

Well, I sugest you capture using whatever program you like. I hate Studio7 of Pinacle because it won't allow to capture more than 70min. at once, but if you like it or use it - it's your choice.
If you can open the avi in vdub (entireley), then I suggest you save it (again) via vdub, but now into 1 large file (not segmented). You'll better use NOT Huffyuv codec (you'll get a too big file of it) but take some other codec. If your capturing in MJPeG, then you could try the codec of PIC Video (but I leave the choice of the correct codec to you too).

If the avi is more than 2 gig, even if the filesytem of your disk is NTFS, I strongly suggest you to save the Movie-part and Audio-part seperate (first take "Save WAV" to a wave-file - then in "Video" select "No Audio" and save the AVI). Then you pre-encode the WAV to mp2 using TMPGenc.
When you start the final encoding of your avi to mpg, you must mux this mp2 with the avi (in tmpgenc : click browse at Audio and select the mp2).
This because I experianced that TMPenc has problems with movies to keep the audio synchronized (sometimes the audio completely falls off).

[Fonzie]

Yesterday I made a copy of the complete file with v-dub and generated a VCD out of it. The video seems to be alright but I lost after one minute the audio. So what you predicted happened.
I have already made a notice to Magix about the 2GB restriction. Best is when they fix the 2 GB frontier. But I suppose the splitting of Audio and Video will aswell be nescessary. Maybe I should also experience with more codecs. I was not very satisfied about Picvideo. Huffyuv still gives me best results, but the large files causes lots of problems, certainly when I have also to dub the files. When I leave some examples on my video drive I'm running very fast short on space.

[Allan55]

Can you move the capture off the partition to another one, and format it to NTFS ?

Basically, NO.

Under FAT16, there was a general limit of 2GB and under FAT32 the limit is 4GB, but Microsoft in it's "wisdom" @#^@!#^!# didn't bother making Windows Explorer, and who knows what else, fully 4GB compliant. It won't move/copy a file bigger than 2GB (I can't copy a file over 2GB from one drive to another).

Maybe VirtualDub or TMPGE or somethingelse can be used to "process" the file from one drive to another without actually doing any processing (I've processed a +2GB file from one drive to another but I don't know either program well enough to know if it can be used to simply copy)

You may find this terrifying:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=77929&highlight=

[mzidanic]

Under FAT16, there was a general limit of 2GB and under FAT32 the limit is 4GB, but Microsoft in it's "wisdom" @#^@!#^!# didn't bother making Windows Explorer, and who knows what else, fully 4GB compliant. It won't move/copy a file bigger than 2GB (I can't copy a file over 2GB from one drive to another).

Maybe VirtualDub or TMPGE or somethingelse can be used to "process" the file from one drive to another without actually doing any processing (I've processed a +2GB file from one drive to another but I don't know either program well enough to know if it can be used to simply copy)

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a utility that will copy a file larger than 2GB on a FAT32 drive under Win98. I have used VirtualDub to "process" a >2GB AVI from one drive to another, but the two files are not identical. The processed file is a few hundred kB smaller. THe video in it looks ok, but I'd still like to have an exact copy.