FRAPS 4GB Limit...

[Ajax_Undone]

Was wondering I run fraps for recording games I Play like WOW and Unreal Tournament xx... My question is. Why is it that it cuts the video segments into 3.5 to 5GB sized video pieces???

My Hard Drive is formatted with 64Kib allocation Units and I am running Windows Vista x64 and have nearly 500GBs of free space on the recording Drive.:)

And yes I have asked the author of the program I have not received any support on the subject... (Been about a year since I asked the question)

Is the AVI container limited by the fact it is a container used back in the old days of Fat32...

[Tagert]

Do you have the full registered program?
I know the 'demo' version only captures 30sec segments at a time, and then you have to push the record button again.

[Ajax_Undone]

Yes..

[Dark Shikari]

Its just a built-in limitation, and not a real issue since you can easily put them back together later. I would guess its because it doesn't use the later AVI format that allows >4GB files.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

If the program is generating PCM audio, the limit on that (PCM stream size max is 4Gb, if I remember correctly) may be coming into play...

[Ajax_Undone]

Thanks I do believe it does use PCM and I suspected it was because it used the old avi 1.0 specs... Thanks for clearing that up...

[setarip_old]

Thanks for clearing that up...As always, my pleasure ;>}

[Ajax_Undone]

Thanks for your inquiry. The 4 gigabyte limit is imposed to maintain compatibility with all video editing programs. Some applications have problems once video files are larger than this. However, we have found that most video editing programs will allow you to import multiple files into a single project for encoding.

Alternatively, you could use a program called VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org) to combine the files together.

To do this, simply open the first video file in the sequence in VirtualDub and then add the other video files by using the "Append AVI Segment" option under the File menu. You will also need to make sure that the video mode is set to "Direct stream copy" (under the Video menu), and the audio mode set to "Source Audio" and "Direct stream copy" (under the Audio menu).

Once you have added the files and configured the video and audio settings, you can select the "Save as AVI" option under the File menu to write the combined file to your hard drive. After VirtualDub has finished you will be able to watch the combined file in your media player software.

Official response to my inquiry I re inquired the same day I posted... I am sending back a request for it to be an option as that I think if I can cut out the extra steps I can get on with what I want to do with the video...

Cheers ~Ajax

[setarip_old]

@Ajax_Undone

Thanks for sharing that info ;>}

[Ajax_Undone]

Your welcome!