FRAPS and the 4GB barrier

[Aikouka]

I have been using FRAPS in World of Warcraft to film Molten Core boss fights. The latest fight ended up being over 4GB (30fps at 640x512) and even though I'm using NTFS, it still split it at 4GB. The 2nd part of the movie is perfectly fine and you can watch it, but you cannot watch the first part. I tried putting it into VirtualDub, but it cut out over half of the video and the sound sounds like someone was recording in a wind tunnel.

I'm not sure if anyone knows a way to get around this or some software I can use to recombine these videos, but it's really depressing to lose some really nice fights when FRAPS or Windows should know not to split the files.

 

[Jeff7]

What compression method is FRAPS using?

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
What compression method is FRAPS using?

The video compression is listed as "Fraps" in Windows and "Fraps video decompressor" in VirtualDub.

 

[Nothinman]

Complain to the FRAPS people, it's not free software so no one here can help you.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Complain to the FRAPS people, it's not free software so no one here can help you.

I don't mind that the software can't handle it ... well sort of, but what I'm looking for is a way to fix the problem if anyone knows it.

 

[Nothinman]

It's not something you can work around, either the software supports large files or it doesn't. Since it intentionally splits the files at the 4G mark they made a conscience decision to not support them, probably for compatibility with FAT filesystems.

 

[hdeck]

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
It's not something you can work around, either the software supports large files or it doesn't. Since it intentionally splits the files at the 4G mark they made a conscience decision to not support them, probably for compatibility with FAT filesystems.

My friend, I am not looking to work around it with the software FRAPS. I am looking to fix it using other software. The purpose of this thread is to find people who know things about video editing software that may have a feature to construct a video header (because FRAPS most certainly did NOT give this video one) for this video.

Also, a wise decision would have been to cut videos at 4GB automatically (Which it does) but not to utterly destroy the other parts (they're missing video headers.) I'm attempting to rebuild them in VirtualDub, but to little success.

 

[skace]

I've never made a >4GB fraps file. I'd be surprised to find out that you cannot view the raw data from the first 4GB and then splice it with the second file. I've seen some people FRAPS some pretty damn long videos before.

 

[Acanthus]

I have no problem recombining the clips from fraps using Pinnacle Studio 9.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: skace
I've never made a >4GB fraps file. I'd be surprised to find out that you cannot view the raw data from the first 4GB and then splice it with the second file. I've seen some people FRAPS some pretty damn long videos before.

I was surprised that I couldn't either ... I mean, VirtualDub made a shamble of the video.

Originally posted by: Acanthus
I have no problem recombining the clips from fraps using Pinnacle Studio 9.

I'll try finding a demo of it or something. Are there any tricks to using it?