Why doesn't Vdub's 'save segmented avi' command allow for 4 gig segments?

[sumptor]

I use avi_io for my segmented video captures (onto a FAT32 drive) which produces a series of 4 gig avi segments. I can open all these seamlessly into vdub for editing and then save them back to the hard drive using the 'save segmented avi' command. When I do this, vdub restricts each segment size to a maximum of 2 gigs, not the original 4 gigs that avi_io produced.

Anyone know why? I thought the current vdub version allowed for large avi file sizes restricted only by the file system size limits.

[wonkey_monkey]

I think the segmented AVI option is mainly there so you have the option of saving a big AVI as several old format AVIs, which have a file limit of 2gb.

That's what I've used it for, anyway - I wrote some programs that only understood the old format, so I had to save my 40gb capture in chunks.

David

[setarip_old]

Hi!vdub restricts each segment size to a maximum of 2 gigs, not the original 4 gigs that avi_io produced.That may be a consequence of the linkage methodology apparently used by "AVI_IO" to create larger .AVIs...