Video capture available time problem

MGoBlue79 wrote on 6/3/2008, 8:50 PM

I have a 500 GB Western Digital external hard drive. When I go to capture video, I added the drive so I could record footage to it. It shows that the drive is 72% free, but it is only showing that it has about three hours of record time available when it should be more like 25-30 hours available.

I have looked over all the settings, but don't see anything set up incorrectly, so why is it doing this and is there anyway to fix it?

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Chienworks wrote on 6/3/2008, 9:00 PM

I just checked my new 500GB drive with 84% free space. VidCap tells me there's only about 6 hours available. Meanwhile the old 500GB drive with only 36% free reports about 8 hours available.

Methinks it's probably not calculating the available time correctly. I'd guess that you'd be able to capture the full 25 hours or so anyway.

jetdv wrote on 6/4/2008, 5:50 AM

"Days" are dropped in the calculation. So if you had 3 days 4 hours worth of capture time available, it will read as 4 hours.