DV - Camera AVI larger 2 GB -> ERROR !

[hunzl]

The problem is:

If i read a DV AVI file, which seems to be longer than 2 gb, the error code -21467259 comes.
If the avi is less 2 gb, there is no error (w2000) !!!

Is anyone out there, who has the same error ?

Again, i have no problems with smaller files (v.1.0.6 build 1).

[Zippie]

i guess your harddisk is fat, that means that this is not an error,
of dvd2svcd but a limitation of your OS. Max file length on fat is 2 gb, try converting your capture disk to the ntfs filesystem, this will allow you to have lager files, i don't know for shure, but i thought 4gb file length

Zippie

[cadbury]

I use ntfs and I can handle 10 to 15 Gbytes files without problem.

[chainsaw135]

What operating system are you using? Reason I ask is fat 16 has a 2 gig limit so switch 2 fat 32 which is 4 gig limit or try NTFS. or ripp the files smaller then 2 gigs ect....

[gerti67]

I assume you have Win2k (w2000?), so i would definitively use the NTFS file system with it. So you will never ever run into some filesize troubles again because the NTFS file system can handle files and partitions up to 16 Terrabyte (1 TB = 1024 GB).

I guess that will be about 54 days of captured DV-material!:D

HTH,
gerti67

[hunzl]

well, i have w2000 and ntfs.
If it works somewhere else, it is no software error, it is my fault, i think !
I will install w2000 again..........:mad:

[markrb]

I read in the CCE forum that CCE 2.5 has a file size limit of 2gb with Avi's. Do a search over in that forum the discussion was rather lengthy and I believe the only solution was to switch to 2.62. Which unless you are using a new beta release you can't do in DVD2SVCD.


Mark

[DDogg]

Markrb, that would not apply using a frameserved source, would it?

Ah darn, I owe dvd2svcd a big dvcam-avi test but have been putting it off. I will get off my butt and do a 4 gig one tomorrow, then report back.

[markrb]

Went back and read some of the posts again. I can't find the one I was thinking of, but I did get some useful info.

According to the CCE 2.5 manual there is a 2gb input file limit.

However you can get around this if you frame serve, but everyone in the CCE forum says to use Virtual Dub's frame server. I don't know if using an avs file makes any difference at all.

I will wait patiently for the test. If anyone can make it work DDOGG can. Good to see you back.


Mark

[DDogg]

I captured a 10 gig file to test. The audio definately will not work, but I have had no problems with encoding the video via the avs file.

I am using XP with ntfs.

Avs was generated by d2s:

LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\SIMPLE~1\SIMPLE~1.DLL")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2Dec\mpeg2dec.dll")
AVISource("D:\VideoCap\Untitled\DVD2SV~1.AVI")
ConvertToYUY2
SimpleResize(480,480)
ResampleAudio(44100)

[Mozart]

windows explorer do see the avs file as a very small file (~1k), and doesn't mather the size of the frameserved file. So... why CCE should have a different behaviour?

[Okar Gona]

The first 9 minutes and 26 secondes the encoded file contains audio. Afterwards audio is muted. My source is a 3 gigabyte avi file encoded with Microsoft DV-codec. The included audiostream is PCM encoded. These 9 minutes and 26 secondes is exactly where the file reaches the 2 gigabyte.

Although the DV souce is PAL, DVD2SVCD thinks it is NTSC. CCE encode the file as PAL butting muxing with BBMpeg gives a failure because BBMpeg EXPECTS a NTSC pulldown video stream whereas CCE as made a PAL video stream. After renaming filename in the ini-file of BBMpeg, the audio and video will be muxed by BBMpeg. Only after 9 minutes no audio anymore. :(

Who has got the same experience? :confused:

BTW: I'm using W2K with NTFS filesystem.

:stupid:

[DDogg]

At present the rudimentary >ALPHA< support of dv-avi only supports files <= 2 gig from an audio standpoint. DVD2SVCD is looking for a non-native windows demuxer for larger files. If anybody knows of an open code example of this please send email to dvd2svcd.

What you can do is a easy workaround for larger dv-avi files.
1> Stop dvd2svcd after it enters the cce phase. Kill dvd2svcd first then cancel out of cce.
2> Use the "save wav" function in vdub (edit menu) to save the wav from your avi. Save as "Extracted_audio_1.wav" into your working directory.
3> Use Crash recovery to restart at the Audio processing stage (NOT audio extraction)

It should encode your extracted wav into an mp2 then continue on through the process.

[Okar Gona]

@DVD2SVCD
Maybe, until you find a non-native windows demuxer for larger files (sorry I can't help you with that), you might implement to following workaround in your next build (3):

If the user selects the AVI2SVCD option, give the user the option to specify where the seperate WAV-file can be found. If this file is specified the audio extracting option can be disabled and this WAV-file will be used for further processing...

To use this feature the user has to create an AVI-file and a WAV-file directly from his video editing software. Most (or all?) video editing software gives the user the option to create a WAV-file. So I think this might be a very good workaround with not much additional work for the end-user.