File size Limitations

[lpn1160]

Happy New Year All!!

I must confess I finally after much reading, searching and trial and error have had successful analogue captures. One step closer to the nail in Microsofts coffin as far as i'm concerned. I can do everything now I wish, within in Linux, Capture, edit, encode, author and burn. However:
after several trials of capturing I have now discovered to my shigrin, Is there a filesize limitation for ext3 ??? All my tests were done with 10 or 15 min. captures (and perfect) . Last night I went to capture a regular film of 90 min and seems the program stopped after 36.min. Is there a problem with this such as FAT32 filesystem having a 4 GIG limit.
my captures script was as follows: streamer -n ntsc -t 01:30:00 -s 352x480 -r 30 -o mymovie.avi -f mjpeg -j 85 -F stereo -c /dev/video0

Tried several times, always stops at 5 GIG @ 36 min.
Do I need to multi-segment capture??

PCLinux
EXT3
AMD xp2400
1 GIG ram
wintv pvr pci

Thanks all

[arckane]

Filesystem block size: 1kB 2kB 4kB 8kB
File size limit: 16GB 256GB 2048GB 2048GB
Filesystem size limit: 2047GB 8192GB 16384GB 32768GB

So, you shouldn't be hitting a limit to be honest, unless it's caused by the capture app :)

Is there the possibility of capturing into seperate files then just merging them together as a quick work around?

[lpn1160]

yes, thanks arckane I think that will have to be my work around.
Thank you very much for responding

[mean]

Non openDML avi are limited to 2/4 Gb avi
That might be the issue

You might want to use something that does not capture to avi
but to nuv file format (nupplerecord/myth/ffv1rec) which has not file limit

[lpn1160]

wrote this shell script as a quick work around till I do more research, seems that after 2GIG for some reason an index is not written to file.So the file will play, however avidemux won't open the file.

Thanks all

#!/bin/sh
#90min


streamer -n ntsc -t 20:00 -s 352x480 -r 29.970 -o stream.avi -f mjpeg -j 85 -F stereo -c /dev/video0

streamer -n ntsc -t 20:00 -s 352x480 -r 29.970 -o stream1.avi -f mjpeg -j 85 -F stereo -c /dev/video0

streamer -n ntsc -t 20:00 -s 352x480 -r 29.970 -o stream2.avi -f mjpeg -j 85 -F stereo -c /dev/video0

streamer -n ntsc -t 20:00 -s 352x480 -r 29.970 -o stream3.avi -f mjpeg -j 85 -F stereo -c /dev/video0

streamer -n ntsc -t 10:00 -s 352x480 -r 29.970 -o stream4.avi -f mjpeg -j 85 -F stereo -c /dev/video0