MS WIndows- will corrupt files bigger than 2GB

[darrell]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone knows a workaround for the 2GB file size limit in WIndows. Is there a way around this? What im trying to do is make some home movies, and when i capture them, if it gets above 2GB in size, it will corrupt the file and wont let me play it back. I can go up to just under 2GB just fine, but once it hits 2GB, its corrupted. Is there a program or something that will let me get a file bigger than 2GB? I have heard of one program, but dont remember the name of it offhand. Any help or info is greatly appreciated. thanks

Darrell

[Glytzhkof]

This sounds really strange. What format do you use for your partitions? FAT? FAT32? NTFS? What is your operating system? Win9x or NT?

[jad1097]

It depends on the format you are useing to compress he video. Here are the max size for a few formats.
Video for Windows (MCI drivers) 1 GB
DirectShow (formerly ActiveMovie) 2 GB
QuickTime (Mac OS and Windows) 2 GB
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/100d2.htm

[Unsecured Loner]

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