CyberLink PowerVCR QUESTION!!! Split files???

[aznguy]

how come when I capture a hour of mpeg 2 from VHS... it makes like 3-4 separated files avg: 600+MB per file... is there any way I can make it one big file size???

I don't know if I post it in the right section... if not, please tell me were it should be... thanx.

[tweety765a]

Yes you can join them together again in powervcrII. It spilts them to 614mb because windows cant handle files over 4gb .

[aznguy]

how do I join them together?

[marvel2020]

Windows can handle files over 4gb if you convert your harddrive/s to NTFS, thats is if your using Windows 2000 pro or WINXP.

[tweety765a]

To join mpeg files together if you have PowerVCR II 3.0 Pro which i have, you go to video timmer in the master panel click on that then in the power vrcII panel where the cyberlink sign is underthat is a icon to open files. Open each file seperately which will display on the editor panel from that there are other icons to trim and place in order. One of the icons is named merge. click on this then it will came up with save panel then choose location of where to save the file then click on save, which then will merge all files together and the file size of the file when finished will be a smaller then the original files.

[gll99]

Use at your own risk if you are a novice to the windows registry!!!!

PowerVCR II has a registry entry "MaxRecSizeMB" which can be tweaked.
The default setting is hex 258 or 600 (decimal) MB. You can set it to what you want.

There are 2 separate key entries in my PC's registry which contains duplicate information, one may be a backup. Changing one seems to have no effect so I just find and change both.

There are many other options available including creating new resolutions not usually available in the defaults. I have one at 352x480 and another of 704x480.

The warning is only to make sure that you are careful whenever you make any change to the registry. In most versions of windows you can't go oops and hit "undo" when using windows regedit. The changes are real time. This is not a particularly dangerous change but don't venture anywhere else if you have doubts

[boss]

how do you access the registry?

[tweety765a]

how to edit the registry.

first it may not apply to windows xp i dont know if it does or not cause i dont use it i use windows 98 second edition.

Click on the 'Start' menu. it should come up with your different settings (my documents, controls, help, program files etc.) under help menu there should be the control named 'Run'. this is to run programs of any kind.

click on this then it will came up with 'enter your location of program etc to open/run. The cursor should be blinking in the file location box.

type in 'regedit' for the registry to edit then press enter. This will bring up the Registry Editor and will have a list starting with 'My Computer' and other folders.

You can go through and look for the files to edit but it is quicker to go to 'Edit' in the tool bar then to 'find' or even easier press 'ctrl-F' - 'control - F' this will bring up the find menu.

Type in 'MaxRecSizeMB'then press 'enter' or 'find next' icon. Takes a little while to find it then

After it finds it click on your right mouse button to bring up the menu. this will have three opions modify, delete or rename. click on modify and then enter a number Refer to previous postings.

After editing this one and remember what number you put in then press 'F3' to find the next one and edit that with the same number.

then close registry editor and load up power vcrii and start recording

[boss]

thanks tweety i tried it and it worked. hacking the registry, i could change the maxfilesize and the resolution. however i have another problem. sometimes when capturing video powervcr starts to drop frames. it always seems to happen 3 minutes into the capture. i think it might be because of the hardrive. is there anyway to speed it up so it doesn't drop frames? change the harddive settings maybe?

[Gazorgan]

Sounds like a Harddrive speed issue. Your PC has run out of RAM to cache with. That is you caping faster than your drive can handle. Your PC uses RAM to cache the difference, works in the short term, but after 3 minutes (about 100 MB for SVCD?) it's too far behind and starts to drop frames.

To test this theory: Cap in high res SVCD(6000-8000 KB/sec), and time the dropped frames. Next cap in high res VCD(2000 KB/sec), since the data rate tends to be 1/3 to 1/4 as much. If you can cap at 2000-3000 KB/sec, but not at the 6000-8000 KB/sec, it's your drive speed.