Can't capture more than 2gb AVI?!?!

[rdegroot]

I purchased Studio Deluxe from Pinnacle but I cannot capture more than 9 minutes / 2 gb AV or DV.

Pinnacle support (yes, they responded within two weeks) suggest to remove the card and then to de- and reinstall Studio 7, Express and HFX. After installation patch all the updates and install HardwareInstaller. Then reboot machine with card replaced.... Pfew, there goes a weekend...

Somewhere I heard it has something to do with my AVI Codecs, what ever that may be... Can I upgrade that with software or something???
Please help me!

[spidey]

My guess is your running WIn 98, and your drive is formatted with FAT32.

If your running Win 2k, your drive still is probably FAT32,

No matter which OS, You need to reformat you capture drive to NTFS, which will let you have no file size limitations

[energy80s]

You should be able to capture up to 4Gb in a single file with Win98. Don't know why you are only getting 2Gb. Maybe try out what Pinnacle have suggested.

[Mirror_Image]

Older type AVIs were limited to 2GB, but newer ("OpenDML")AVIs have no such limit:

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There are two types, Type-1 and Type-2.

An AVI file can contain multiple streams, usually one video and one audio. DV is a data stream that itself contains video and audio. In a Type-1 AVI, the whole DV stream is stored unmodified as one AVI stream. In a Type-2 AVI the DV stream is split into separate video and audio data, which are stored as two streams in the AVI.

The advantage of Type-1 is that the DV data does not need to be processed, and is stored in its exact original format. The advantage of Type-2 is that it is compatible with video software that is not specially written to recognize and process Type-1 files.

There are several limits that affect the maximum size of an AVI file.

The original specification for AVI files limits their size to 4GB, but for software reasons the maximum workable size is 2GB. This corresponds to about 9.5 minutes of DV format video.

OpenDML is a standard that extends the AVI specification to effectively remove the file-size limit. If video software and drivers support OpenDML then the size of AVI files is only limited by the operating system and size of disks.

File sizes are also limited by the disk format used by the operating system. FAT32, supported by Windows 95 onwards, does not allow any single file larger than 4GB. NTFS, supported by Windows NT/2000/XP, allows effectively unlimited files and partitions.
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[crystaldon]

They're right, there are file size limitations, but the capture program should be able to automatically go to multiple files. I think virtualdub has a size setting that lets you define the switching point.