700mb + 700mb = 92gb!

[PeteRooney]

Dead easy question - I hope. I uses VirtualDub to merge to 2 700MB AVIs, but the resulting file, whilst working OK was 92GB in size! What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Pete

[jeffy]

You are using NO compression. Video -> Direct stream copy should do the trick.

[PeteRooney]

Wow! Quick response! I'll give it a go - thank you!

[PeteRooney]

Just tried it - spot on! Thanks for my first introduction to VirtualDub!

Pete

[jeffy]

You're welcome!

[Avenger007]

Is there a way to make Direct stream copy the default?

[squid_80]

Change the shortcut for the program to "virtualdub.exe /cmd VirtualDub.video.SetMode(0)".

[Avenger007]

Entering it in the shortcut gives an error saying that the file name is not valid.

[squid_80]

What did it have there before?

[Avenger007]

Before: "C:\Program Files\VirtualDub-1.8.4\VirtualDub.exe"
Gives error with: "C:\Program Files\VirtualDub-1.8.4\VirtualDub.exe /cmd VirtualDub.video.SetMode(0)"

[Avenger007]

Sorry, I just tried it with
"C:\Program Files\VirtualDub-1.8.4\VirtualDub.exe" /cmd VirtualDub.video.SetMode(0)
and it works.
:thanks:
Don't know why the author didn't make it the default in the first place :rolleyes:

[setarip_old]

Don't know why the author didn't make it the default in the first placeProbably because the primary functions of the program are related to editing/altering video in ways that require "Full processing"...

[squid_80]

Don't know why the author didn't make it the default in the first place :rolleyes:Because then he'd get a heap of error reports asking why the filter and compression options are unavailable. :)

[Avenger007]

OK, I see, but it should remember the setting. IIRC VirtualDubMod remembers it correctly.
In any case I no longer have to remember to set Direct stream copy each time. :) Thanks again.

[talen9]

OK, I see, but it should remember the setting. IIRC VirtualDubMod remembers it correctly.
In any case I no longer have to remember to set Direct stream copy each time. :) Thanks again.

I think that VDubMod does neither; it only mantains the value of the option field during the same session.
Once you close VDM and open it again, the dialog defaults back to "Full processing".

[squid_80]

VirtualDubMod has a setting in options->preferences->VDubMod called Video mode which does more or less the same thing.

[setarip_old]

Much ado about nothing ;>}

[shae]

Today's hard drives... I still remember using 80K 8" floppies.

(No, not really.)

[mike_lee]

I still have and use a 20 meg hard drive from PCT (Pacific Coast technologies) I paid 5 or 6 hundred bucks for.

[CWR03]

From a 1982 Radio Shack catalog:

http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/6822/harddrivecr6.jpg

The drive housing is about the size of a medium desktop PC.

[Ranguvar]

Let us not forget the first hard drive:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/technology_enl_1158142314/img/1.jpg

http://www.techepics.com/files/xlg_ibm_ramac.jpg

Presenting the world's first hard drive, first introduced in 1956 -- IBM's 5MB Random Access Memory Accounting: RAMAC®, magnetic-disk memory storage. It stored information on fifty disks, which spun at 1,200 rpm. These disks are mounted so as to rotate about a vertical axis, with a spacing of three tenths of an inch between disks. This spacing permits two magnetic heads to be positioned to any one of the 100 concentric tracks which are available on each side of each disk. Each track contains 500 alphanumeric characters. Total storage capacity: 5,000,000 characters. The two recording heads are mounted in a pair of arms which are moved, by a feed-back control system, in a radial direction to straddle a selected disk.

[shae]

I bet THAT comes with a serious installation manual.