FAT32 users, I need your suggestions

[catback]

Hi,

I'm currently authoring DVDs under Win98 and the Fat32 file system. Due to the inherent limitations of Fat32, AVI 1.0 and Video for Windows drivers, my capturing program will capture only into several 2 gig segments.

After converting these avis into dvd compliant files (via CCE Basic in my case)and authoring them (via either DVD Workshop or TMpeg DVD Author), I have noticed that there is a 1 second pause during playback at the end of one segment and the beginning of the next.

Any way to solve this while staying with Win98 and FAT32? Thanks.

[mpucoder]

The problem is NOT FAT32, but the limitation of avi files. FAT32 is limited to 4 G, but standard avi is limited to 2G. Use VirtualDub to capture using segmented avi files, which have no limit, and can span drives if need be.
Then encode in one operation, by encoding each of your 2G captures seperately you introduce a clock discontinuity at each splice. This causes the player to pause while it re-establishes synchronization.

If you wish to salvage what you have, VirtualDub can also be used to join the many individual files together into one segmented file.

[DonBerg]

Yes use Virtual Dub to record with multiple segments and then use AVISynth to frame serve from the multiple segments to an MPEG2 encoder like TMPGenc. The largest resulting MPG2 file however will be limited to the 4GB limit of FAT32, but you can have multiple MPG2 files to get the 4.37GB limit of DVD-Rs. Use a DVD author program like TMPGenc-DVD-Author that works well with FAT32 as the output, some others like DVD-Lab don't work well with FAT32 however.

[catback]

Thanks for the replies.

mpucoder:

My Win98 setup uses the old Video for Windows drivers, not the current WDM drivers. Is this what is limiting AVI files to 2 gig?

I currently use AVI_IO for video captures. How will using VDub enable me to create larger avi files? Wouldn't I still be limited to 2 gig avi files since I'm still under VfW?

How exactly would I encode in one operation as you suggested? Would the resultant MPEG2 file be one huge file or still be individual files corresponding to the segmented avis?

DonBerg:

An idea if AVISynth works witn CCE Basic? I prefer this encoder over all others for it's speed and quality.

Also, can you point me to a guide that shows how I can use AVISynth in your suggestion?

[2COOL]

My Win98 setup uses the old Video for Windows drivers, not the current WDM drivers. Is this what is limiting AVI files to 2 gig? If you did a search in Google, you'll probably find this (http://www.puremotion.com/resources/technical/2gbfilelimit/).

[DonBerg]

Its possible to use AVIsynth with CCE but it takes some other software steps to do so, with TMPGenc it can load a .avs file directly and work with the mutliple AVI segments as one big AVI continuous video.