How Overcome 4GIG Limit???

[mrtbig]

Please advise me how to overcome the 4GIG limit when capturing??
I use the AIW Radeon 32MB! Thanks!

[john_630]

:cry: You need a drive formated with NTSF.
98 is fat32 and you can't have a file larger than 4gb.
You will need to upgrade your OS.

[Cooly-O]

Please advise me how to overcome the 4GIG limit when capturing??
I use the AIW Radeon 32MB! Thanks!

VirtualDub (http://www186.pair.com/vdub) or (www.virtualdub.org)
-File, Capture AVI, Video, Source, Video Composite
-F6 to start capture
-Esc key to stop capture and immediately save capture to a file called “Capture” to the C:/ folder

REF:
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?50@251.wQfOaUDyyiF^4@.ef780af/10

[Cooly-O]

Perhapas a better reference link:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@251.wQfOaUDyyiF^5@.ef780af

[Craig Tucker]

If you have to use fat32, save as segmented file in Vdub, this in effect splits your large file, which is only limited by the size of your hard drive, into smaller chunks. I reccomend less than 2gig for AVI files. You can then frameserve these files which are consecutively numbered eg. Capture 00, 01 .......15, etc, to TMPGEnc for encoding. This in effect sees all the small files as one large file.

Cooly-0
How does what you describe overcome the 4 gig limit

Craig

[Cooly-O]

Cooly-0
How does what you describe overcome the 4 gig limit

Craig

AVI file size has a 4gig limit, even in NTFS (NT File System). So for me (NTFS) I used Vdub, as described, to make > 4gig avi file.

[M1dnight]

first off to answer ya Q it overcomes it by splittin up the movie in smaller parts so you can have a 50 gig avi only its split in smaller files.....so it doesnt really overcome it, its just a bridge so to speak

if you really wanan overcome the limit
switch to xp then u can have 1 big file of how much you want
nfts that is

[M1dnight]

but really i wanted to thank craigthucker
for spilling what is probably common knowledge, even tho i found it not in any of the guides

''You can then frameserve these files which are consecutively numbered eg. Capture 00, 01 .......15, etc, to TMPGEnc for encoding. This in effect sees all the small files as one large file. ''

'thanks alot for this man...im gonna immediatly dig trough this site n others to find out bout this frameserving trough tmp enc to encode all the small segments as in one turn so to speak..i didnt know this was possible with tmpenc[/quote]

[Fred©]

'thanks alot for this man...im gonna immediatly dig trough this site n others to find out bout this frameserving trough tmp enc to encode all the small segments as in one turn so to speak..i didnt know this was possible with tmpenc

[/quote]

When finished capturing the segmented AVI with VirtualDub, you just have the open the FIRST AVI and ALL the other will be automactically ready for frameserving...

Just click START FRAME SERVER , name the file, OPEN TMPGEnc, choose the .vdr file and ALL the segmented files will be frameserved to create a single LARGE file (MPEG or other format).

By the way, the 4GB limit is the standard created by Micro$oft. That time, Micro$oft thought it was large enough...

Instead of AVI, MPEG has no limit (if captured in NTSF partition).

Fred©

[LanceSteel]

Cooly-O, are you sure that NTFS has a 4GB avi constraint? I capture avi's all the time that are over 4GB (usually around 5GB) and they play fine and I never have any ill effects.[/quote]

[Shabubu]

AVI 1 files have a 4 GB limit regardless of OS. Virtualdub and AVISynth can use OpenDML AVI 2 files, which have no size limit.

[mrtbig]

Thanks Everyone for Responding!! I will try your suggestions and get back with you!! Many Thanks!!!