VS11 is resetting my captured file

evanvs1 · Post by **evanvs1** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:34 pm

I'm capturing analog successfully via EasyCap, straight to DVD format. Working great. Plenty of space on my hard-drive (I'm capturing direct to an external drive).

However, at about the 1 hour mark (as best I can tell), it seems to reset the file, and everything captured up to that point is lost, and the new file (of the exact same name), begins anew.

I'm on XP, shouldn't have any file size limitations.

Ideas?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:50 pm

While you might have XP, and your main internal computer drives might be formatted using NTFS, most external hard drives come formatted with FAT32 (so Mac users can also buy them). But FAT32 imposes a maximum 4GB size limit on the files it can handle. And if you are importing using a high quality DVD/mpeg-2 setting, then roughly one hour of video would be equivalent to 4 GB. That is why a new capture process starts as it is a new file.

With the external hard disk turned on, go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management, and it will tell you, after a few seconds, all the information about your various hard disks, including the external one.

If, as I suspect, it is indeed using FAT32, then you can do a quick change to NTFS without affecting your existing files. Or of course you could leave it as it is and accept the 4 GB limitation.

evanvs1 · Post by **evanvs1** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:04 pm

I appreciate the quick reply, but both drives are partitioned as NTFS. Any other ideas?

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:08 am

Hi

As Kens reply, at one hour 8000kbps you would hit 4Gb and I would have thought Fat32

Try checking¡K¡K¡K

¡¥Disc quotas¡¦ would cause a similar problem, but unusual to have this set on home pc.

The capture continues until the quotas reach the limit then the captured file is deleted allowing capture to re start. But I think windows would give a notification???????

Just a thought

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:15 am

What happens if you capture to dv.avi?
Or any other file format?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:17 pm

EasyCap is a very simplistic device which does not allow for capture to DV... Not sure what other formats it allows apart from DVD/mpeg-2 and mpeg-1, but it actually comes with some version of VS "for capturing and editing" according to the ads with it... From what it says, though, I believe capturing in DVD format may be the best choice available...