Re: Maximum .avi file

["Ford55" <ford55(at)ca.inter.net>]

My drive are formated in NTFS. I manage to read a 7.2 Gig .avi with the software Alan Jones send me:  http://www.videolan.org/vlc . How can I know wich service is used from window meida player? and how I change it. Now that I'm able to read it I need to put it on a DVD. Do you know a free .mpeg encoder for xp x64?

 

Thanks

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Luc-Eric Rousseau

To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM

Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:25 AM

Subject: RE: Maximum .avi file

It depends how you make it.

Firstly, you need to be using an NTFS file system and not FAT.  But that's probably not a problem.

 

There are two different services for managing AVI.  The first one is Video For Windows, and it dates back from Windows 3.1, and is limited to 2 gig file size.  This is the service used by XSI and most applications that date back from NT 4.0  It's effectivly a dead API.  It's possible that QuickTime is also using that API when it's writing AVIs.

 

The second service is Direct Show. It's used by Adobe products, windows media player and everything more recent, and it supports AVI 2.0, with no file size limit.

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Ford55
Posted At: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:56 AM
Posted To: xsi
Conversation: Maximum .avi file
Subject: Maximum .avi file

Can you help me on that? As soon as  I make an .avi over 2Gig I'm not able to play it from anything (Window Média, Winamp)

Does 2.0 Gig is the maximum size for an .avi to be played?  Even on xp x64? With all the new HD format How do you manage that?

 

Thanks to all

Ford55