Fragmented Video Capture files

edatwilm wrote on 2/16/2003, 10:30 AM

Recently the files I am capturing from tape are fragmented into several small files of about 10 to 20 seconds length. What am I doing wrong? I have defraged my hard disk recently, but it may have been a month ago. Is this the problem? I will do it again.

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discdude wrote on 2/16/2003, 2:43 PM

I can think of three things that could be wrong:

1) Is "Enable Scene Detection" checked under the capture preferences in Vidcap? If it is, you might want to disable it.

2) If you are using Win9x (or more precisely the FAT32 file system), the maximum file size is 4 GB. If your video capture exceeds this limit, Vidcap will very kindly create a new file to fit the rest of your video. However, you should be able to fit almost 20 minutes of DV footage in a 4GB file, not 20 seconds. Are you capturing uncompressed analog video?

3) Again, if you are capturing analog video, dropped frames could be causing the capture to stop. A defrag could help here.

If you are capturing DV footage, I'm almost certain number 1 will be your solution.

IanG wrote on 2/16/2003, 4:58 PM

I suspect the answer's 1), and if so, is it a problem? I *like* working that way. But just in case it's none of the above, try:-

4) Check "Disk Management" in VidCap (options / preferences) and make sure the value for maximum DV clip size is set to something like 4096.

Defragging the disk probably wont make any difference.

Ian G.

edatwilm wrote on 2/18/2003, 8:10 AM

Thank you, discdude. Number 1 did the trick.