Video compression

[its.fubar]

I am having a problem with exceeding one and half hours conversion to DivX,The input device for capture is working correctly and give me the right recording time and good video and sound quality.

the program I am using is "virtualdub" and does a great job up to one and half hour conversion then stop regardless of the time you previously recorded.

http://www.virtualdub.org

now the question is this, does anyone know of a better program which will allow me to go beyond one hour 30 minutes compression.

many thanks for any suggestions

 

[Mercutio]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubmod

... is the open-source full featured Vdub with support for MPEG2. A very happy thing.

There is no 90 minute limit for compressing in vdub. If stuff isn't working right at the 90 minute point, the first question is... how?

Are your movies coming out too large? Is the program crashing at 90 minutes?

 

[Will Rickards WT]

Maybe that is a file type/size/system limit?

 

[its.fubar]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubmod

... is the open-source full featured Vdub with support for MPEG2. A very happy thing.

There is no 90 minute limit for compressing in vdub. If stuff isn't working right at the 90 minute point, the first question is... how?

Are your movies coming out too large? Is the program crashing at 90 minutes?

The source for the recording is a Pinnacle PCTV which seems to be working correctly and recording the complete film but when I tried to compress it in vdub, the program does not crash In true sense of the word but just stops at 90 minutes, I am not certain if movies are coming out to large at 4.6 gb in mpeg1 and if it is to large for vdub?

I do apologize for not answering earlier.

 

[SteveC]

Can you play your recording in a media player? How much space do you have free on your hard drive?

 

[its.fubar]

Can you play your recording in a media player? How much space do you have free on your hard drive?

I do not think the problem is with my hard drive there is plenty of room approximately 80gb free and about 40gb used, yes I can play the result in media player that is not the problem, my problem is compression to save space and save to CD.

many thanks anyway for your interest.