4gb file limit ??

[amichael]

I have tried capturing an avi from my hi-8 camcoder using virtualdub and it keeps crashing out at the same point- about 10 minutes into the capture process which 3.99GB.

It's also fallen over with Uleads Photo 6 at the same point in file size.

I run Windows 98 - disks are FAT32 . Is there a limit and what can I do ?

I do have lots of disk space free and windows 98 can generally see and use of it , it's just this single file limit - possibly.

[alpal]

there is a limit 4gb using FAT32 file system why dont you change the video compression to microsoft mpeg 4 vedeo codec v1

[Craig Tucker]

If you capture using virtualdub you can get round this limit by saving as a segmented file. It will then capture in seamless chunks such as capture00, capture01, capture02 etc. You can then frameserve to software such as TMPGEnc for encoding, which will see the series of small files as one large file.

Craig

[amichael]

I'll try segmenting as suggested and microsoft compression - although I'm not 100% sure on the quality of the output .

[Craig Tucker]

To get the best quality, capture segmented using yuy2 or yuv with huffyuv compression, then frameserve to TMPGEnc to convert to mpeg.

Craig

[amichael]

I didn't manage anything last night - time ran out !!!

I use HuffyAV , but cannot seem to select YUV or YUY2 instead use jpeg/mpeg motion. Could it be that my BUZZ card does not support it or do I need to find this software and install it ?

thanks for the help so far.

[Craig Tucker]

In vdub select, file -> capture, then select video -> format, there is a dropdown box with image format selections in it, if your card is capable of yuy2 or yuv, they should be in there. There is another dropdown box to allow you to select your resolution. Then select video -> compression and select huffyuv.

Craig

[amichael]

Those two are there listed as well as many others, but on selecting them I get an error saying something like it's unsupported or unknown something (I'm at work at the moment).
I can only select either of the RGB12 or RGB24 or motion jpeg.