Windows Media Player Streams the File rather than loads it all, so if
its encoded at 200kbps its only reading 200kb at a time thus not going
over the 2gig limit

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Simon Anderson


-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ethan Matthews
Sent: 29 July 2001 15:36
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] RAM limit in Win98 SE?

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:53:18 +1000, Ultra <[log in to unmask]> posted
article
<003a01c116a3$7deed910$50fa36cb@Master>, which said:

> win2k should be a better platform for video editing (no 2G file size
> limit as win9x does).

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.  I wonder why I could
play
the file, but not edit it, and how was my video capture card "allowed"
to
write such a large file in the first place?

Ethan

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