Blu-Ray disk burning stops after 20-30 minutes

[PatBarr]

I have my Blu-Ray disks working great but I've ran into a problem. If my video is longer than about 20-30 minutes it doesn't play the rest of the video.vvThe burning process says it created sucessfully but the playback is missing the complete video.

When I create the video file from the project it works just fine and shows the entire video.

Any ideas?

[sjj1805]

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Most of the following will also apply to Blue Ray discs
CD/DVD burning/playback problems

[PatBarr]

I found the problem but I don't know a solution. XP has a file limit size of 4GB. VisualStudeo can create video files larger than this and XP will just start a new file so one single video could have a 4GB file followed by a 1GB file for example. VideoStudeo is smart enough to know this and process these files as one video. PowerDVD, and other DVD players, also can handle this.

Apparently the VS DVD burner isn't this smart and doesn't anticipate that there could be more than one fisical file for each video so it stops after processing the first file.

This needs to be reported to Corel but I don't know how to do this.

[sjj1805]

.... XP has a file limit size of 4GB. .....

No.... FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB, XP performs much better with a NTFS filing system.

Try converting your hard drive

[Shim]

May be a misunderstanding relating to a 32bit operating system addressing a maximum 4Gb of system memory (RAM), rather than actual files sizes.

[PatBarr]

NTFS does have a maximum file limit of 4GB. I've worked in IT for 30 years and have support XP and Server networks for several years.

Infact we just ran into the 4GB file limit at work when one of our users had a Outlook offline file which tried to exceed this limit.

I believe VS might be able to handle burning multiple video files to disk as long as each individual file is less than 4GB.

Thanks, Pat

[sjj1805]

NTFS does have a maximum file limit of 4GB. I've worked in IT for 30 years and have support XP and Server networks for several years.

Infact we just ran into the 4GB file limit at work when one of our users had a Outlook offline file which tried to exceed this limit.

I believe VS might be able to handle burning multiple video files to disk as long as each individual file is less than 4GB.

Thanks, Pat

Pat,
I don't doubt you are competent in the areas of computing to which you work in, I also have over 30 years IT experience - my first computer was a Dragon 32 with a massive 32 KILOBYTES of RAM, no floppy drives and you had to hook up an audio cassette recorder to be able to save/retrieve anything!

I do not expect anyone to be an expert in all areas of computing no matter how many years experience someone has, Indeed I myself am the first to say that I do not know everything there is to know about computing.

I take it from the fact that you are here on this Web Board seeking help and support that you are new to the world of Video Editing. Unlike most corporate systems that perhaps use Microsoft Office etc. where file sizes are unlikely to reach 4GB - in the world of video editing that size is in fact quite small. A 1 hour Video recorded by a DV Camcorder will have a file size of 13 Gigabytes. On a NTFS filing system these files remain as one large file, they are not split up into 4GB chunks - that is the world of a FAT32 filing system.

VideoStudio is designed to handle these large file sizes with ease.

Infact we just ran into the 4GB file limit at work when one of our users had a Outlook offline file which tried to exceed this limit.

It is likely that your IT Department had set User Disc Quota Limits.

The following are a few limitations of NTFS:

File Names
File names are limited to 255 UTF-16 code words. Certain names are reserved in the volume root directory and cannot be used for files. These are: $MFT, $MFTMirr, $LogFile, $Volume, $AttrDef, . (dot), $Bitmap, $Boot, $BadClus, $Secure, $Upcase, and $Extend;[3] . (dot) and $Extend are both directories; the others are files. The NT kernel limits full paths to 32,767 UTF-16 code words.

Maximum Volume Size
In theory, the maximum NTFS volume size is 264−1 clusters. However, the maximum NTFS volume size as implemented in Windows XP Professional is 232−1 clusters. For example, using 64 KiB clusters, the maximum NTFS volume size is 256 TiB minus 64 KiB. Using the default cluster size of 4 KiB, the maximum NTFS volume size is 16 TiB minus 4 KiB. (Both of these are vastly higher than the 128 GiB limit lifted in Windows XP SP1.) Because partition tables on master boot record (MBR) disks only support partition sizes up to 2 TiB, dynamic or GPT volumes must be used to create bootable NTFS volumes over 2 TiB.

Maximum File Size
Theoretical: 16 EiB minus 1 KiB (264 − 210 or 18,446,744,073,709,550,592 bytes). Implementation: 16 TiB minus 64 KiB (244 − 216 or 17,592,185,978,880 bytes)