TMPGEnc & Windows XP Pro Issues

[Clotz2000]

Ok, I have been encoding movies for quite awhile now, but I seem to be having issues with Windows XP Pro & TMPGEnc 12x. I rip the movie to my HD with Smartripper and then encode using TMPGEnc 12j. I have done this many times before, but with Windows 2000 and it worked just fine. Now when I encode a movie with TMPGEnc in Windows XP Pro it goes to 3.99GB file and then gives me a "Stream Writing Error". I have about 30GB free on both of my hard drives, so I know there is not a disk space issue. I was just curious if anyone else out there is having a problem like this. It doesn't matter what kind of movie or how long it is, but if it outputs a file that goes to 3.99GB it gives the error. Any movie that is encoded below that file size works just fine. Let me know if anyone else is having this issue. Thanks. (Baldrick- Let me know if you have seen this issue on any other forum) Thanks...

[woodie]

When you loaded Windows XP did you choose the NTFS option which allows files larger then 4Gb?

[dreanmachine]

I have the same constraint on my FAT32 XP system. Is there anyway to get around the 4 GB file size for conversion? I capture in AVI format with Huffuv, then try to convert to AVI DV for best quality. Then I use TMPGEnc to convert this to MPEG-1 VCD format to burn using Nero. I nerver get very far in the initial capturing on AVI Huffyuv before it tells me that I am out of disk space. I have 18 GBs to use, but I think I am coming up against the 4GB file constraint, right? Any help? Thanks!

[ChevyNo1]

Woodie hit it on the head. FAT32 has a 4GB limit. I specified an NTFS partition and it works fine.

- Dug

[spidey]

Yep. Remember.

If you need to go higher than a 4 gig file you must use NTFS as your file system.

The only Win OS' which support it are a kernel based systems like NT 4, Win2k, WinXp.

An accompanying side note:
If you ever want to dual boot your system, make sure you first load any Win9x(incl. Me) based OS on the active/primary partitions, and the more dynamic OS WinNT, Win2k, WinXP, would go onto another partition second. Don't want to confuse anyone, but just threw this in as it would deal with common file system / OS issues in one response. My recommendation is though to trash any Win9x/Me OS and move into a kernel based one.....Don't waste the space dual booting......

[Clotz2000]

Man, I knew I forgot something when I installed again. Well I have had luck now. I have 2 hard drives and I just formatted the second one with NTFS and run TMPGEnc from that drive and everything is working fine. Thanks much to all who replied.
Clotz