Size Limit of Files Capturing From DVD

McLean1

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Jun 30, 2009 22:58

I did see another subject similar to this when I searched and even posted in that thread. I wanted to go back and edit something that I realized BUT was unable to. I'm not sure if there is an issue with that thread or not, SO I'm starting a new one.

The previous versions of power director didn't limit the size of the file (that I remember) You could throw a DVD in, have it extract as one file and voila you can manipulate it as you see fit. I too have run into the problem now of trying to capture a DVD as one big mpg and it has split it up into two pieces.

I checked out Help it says to set a maximum capture length, check Time Limit, then enter a time in the timecode box. This only applies to TV capture and perhaps camera capture (not sure) BUT there sure isn't any option that I can see in capturing from a DVD. I tried to see if there was any setting that I could change that would capture the full DVD (no luck) the split seems to be at 3.7g then the second clip is 527mb.

Just to be clear. I don't want this in two clips, I also don't want to pull the vob files in, if you do either and then want the video to run smoothly between the clips, this doesn't happen, there is a slight stall. I would like to know what I can do to put a DVD in my computer and capture and have it come out in one HUGE clip.

Help.

vn800rider

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Jul 01, 2009 04:47

Hi McLean,

I don't use cature a lot and I have no definitive answer as to the 3.7Gb limit but historically as we know FAT32 had a 4 Gb limit, translated in Windows to 3.7Gb.

A lot of camera SD cards are only FAT32 formatted. Interestingly AVI apparently had (has??) a 4Gb limit and also the QT Mpeg decoder had a 4Gb limit, again all apparently to do with 32bit addressing within the file structure.

I don't know how CL organises the capture function, a quick conversation with Dafydd reckons it captures to .avi then renders to .mpg?? but maybe they've stuck with (gone back to??) a legacy compatible method to avoid problems.

I suspect only CL knows the answer.

I suspect you may have to resort to third party software to grab your DVD files and then import them to PD.

Anyone else know?

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McLean1

Contributor Joined: Jul 30, 2006 23:00 Messages: 336 Offline

Jul 01, 2009 10:40

Yes I recognized the limit based on FAT32 BUT since I am not configured that way, I would think that my system isn't doing the limiting BUT PD is. It's disappointing in that it used to capture until you stopped it as long as you had it set right. Thank goodness this doesn't happen with TV capture, which I do almost daily.

I might be wrong but I would think if you have your capture settings at .mpg it would cap that way? I know that when I capture from the TV, the raw file is an mpg.

As it stands I did end up with an anwer in that other thread (thanks to waters) which was disappointing, in that there is no PD solution, however, this is what was said.

I gave up on this process. I discovered you can create a single VOB (Mpeg) from a DVD disc using DVDdecrypter in IFO mode, which you can then import into Power Director. This works a treat with any size of file and so far totally error free. DVD decrypter is available at various places on the net totally free. (if you haven't already got it).
Best solution at the moment I'm afraid

Hopefully we can find a solution to this, with PD, BUT this might help some until then. Thanks waters, vn800rider and Dafydd.

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McLean1

Contributor Joined: Jul 30, 2006 23:00 Messages: 336 Offline

Jul 10, 2009 01:14

Here is my solution. I plugged a DVD player into my computer and I captured from the dvd player rather than ripped from the dvd drive. No capture issues.