Exporting ATI's .vcr format to mpeg2

[bulldawg1979]

I'm using an ATI AIW 9800 Pro video card. I recorded a program using ATI's .vcr format. Now, I want to convert it to mpeg2 and burn to a DVD. Supposedly, this can be done by going to the multimedia library, right clicking on the file and selecting mpeg2. Once I do this, a progress indicator appears and it seems that the conversion is taking place, but when the green bar reachs the end, an error message, "You do not have enough space on the drive," pops up.

I have obviously not set something up correctly, because I have plenty of hard disk space. I have 2 drives in a Raid 0 array with over 100G of free space. I set the disk space settings for the PVR function so that unlimited free space can be used for temporary storage, if needed, when recording.

Can anyone figure out what the problem is?

 

[fishbits]

No, sorry, but if I come up with something will let you know. Perhaps there's a bug and instead of setting unlimited space, you can change this to a huge fixed number. When I saw the option for .vcr format, I said "Uh, no thanks, I'm sure it's nice and all but since there's a chance I'll ultimately want an mpeg2 or avi I'll pass".

 

[MDE]

To prevent this in the future, just set it to record MPEG2 in the beginning.

 

[fishbits]

Another thought: Is the source or finished product looking to be over 4GB? Could be running into an artificial limitation in the software that's misreporting the error. If so, you could try chopping up the source and encoding that way.

 

[bulldawg1979]

Once converted, it shouldn't be much more than 1G. I'll definitely be setting future programs to record in mpeg, but I would like to get this one in .vcr format converted. I've submitted the problem to ATI's tech support, so I'll see if they find an answer.
Thanks