Hi Ethan Matthews!   At 02:37 PM 7/31/01 -0500 you wrote:
 >On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:55:44 -0700, Stanislav Rabinovich <[log in to unmask]>
 >posted article <[log in to unmask]>, which said:
 >
 >> Hi Ethan Matthews!   At 09:35 AM 7/29/01 -0500 you wrote:
 >>
 >> > Ahhh, that explains why I can't edit 2.1 gigabyte video clips!  I had no
 >> > idea Win98 had a limit on file size.  :-) Incidentally, I could PLAY the
 >> > raw AVI video clip with Windows Media Player, but when I tried to edit
 >> > and save the file, I got errors on anything over 2 gigs.
 >>
 >> You can save this file!  if it is mpeg1.  You can do that, using tmpg
 >> encoder and reducing the bitrating a little .  But it will work a long
 >> time (around 3 hours on 1GHz computer).
 >
 >Three hours for 1 gigabyte?

I didn't say 1 Gbyte but 1GHz!

 >Dude, I've encoded raw AVI files of 1.6
 >gigabytes in only 2 or 3 minutes on a 1.2 GHz computer and a 7200 RPM ATA-66
 >hard drive.

I told about mpg 1 files but not about avi.
Also i told about converting the file into lower bitrate but
not about simple saving them. It is not possible if original file has size
more than 2,048 Mb.

But if it is streamed (like mpeg1) then you can play it or convert to lower
bitrating
to make the size lower than 2Gb. Not all software can do that.
Virtual Dub can't but TMPG can.

--
Stanislav Rabinovich

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