Maximum File size in Windows ME when producing AVI-files

[Maenhout]

I have got captured 2 hrs DV (AVI) film to my harddisk (approx 24gb) in several scenes. The biggest scene is appr. 1.8 gB. I just started into digital video and I have made a storyline in Videowave 3SE and want to produce te whole film (now cutted to 1hr. and 10 minutes (will be appr 14 Gb) into AVI (dv-format). Then I want to create a SVCD out of this big AVI file. I can't succeed this 1hrs10min file to produce. Has it to do with maximum filesize in Windows ME? I created earlier a SVCD via Videowave (avi) into a SVCD via TMPEG 2.0... and the result was very good (this film was approx 18 minutes and appr. 360 MB). My problem now is that videowave stops producing at appr. 28% with "unable to write videoframe, please check for avail. diskspace and valid compression options".
My computer is an Athlon 1400 with 256 DDR, siluro t400 64 MB video and two Harddisks 40 GB 7200 rpm.
And can anyone tell me what is the maximum length or size for SVCD on a CDR?
Who can help me

[resnullius]

The problem is on a fat 32 hard drive (windows 95 98 me and if you don't choose to format to ntsf 2000 and xp) you cannot have an avi file bigger than 4 gig.
you'll want to frame serve or output straight to mpg. As for the maximum size of an svcd file youi can count on your cd accepting 50meg more safely.

[Maenhout]

The problem is on a fat 32 hard drive (windows 95 98 me and if you don't choose to format to ntsf 2000 and xp) you cannot have an avi file bigger than 4 gig.
you'll want to frame serve or output straight to mpg. As for the maximum size of an svcd file youi can count on your cd accepting 50meg more safely.

Thanks for your reply. If I understand this good, I have to change to windows 2000 / xp or make directly an mpg file. Or is it possible to format to ntsf in windows ME? Via videowave to mpg I don't get good quality. I guess this must be done via tmpeg or other program?

[resnullius]

you cannot format to ntsf with windows me.
What you might want to do however is: use premiere to edit your video. then frameserve to tmpgenc. and voila! frame serving is a bit longer than doing it other wise but the result are good and it avoids the 4gig limitation...
hope that helps.
BTW, the info on frame serving from premier on this site is unfortunatly inacurate. follw the instructions (and download the frameserve prog) at
www.videotools.net

[FranckV]

Yoy could also use Virtual Dub and Save as segmented AVI.