Posted by thirdofthree

I captured from my DV cam 461 seconds of video using Stoik Capturer (before I knew about Z-S). The file is about 1.16GB, uncompressed AVI. After importing the video into Z-S, I perform the following actions and recieve the following results:

01 Destination | Video Format: set to 320*240
02 Destination | Frames Per Second: set the 30 fps.
03 Destination | Export | Video For Windows (AVI)
04 Specify a filename
05 In the Sound Quality Dialog, OK the default (stereo, 16-bit / 44.1 kHz)
06 In Compression Options select the Divx 5.2.1 Codec
07 Accept the default Divx 5.2.1 configuration, "Standard"
08 Press OK to initiate the conversion from uncompressed AVI to Divx 5.2.1 AVI.
09 Conversion works fine until the 214th second.
10 While the output file continues to grow, the actual output for the period of time beyond the 214th second is a static image from the 214th second - no frames beyond the 214th second appear in the output file.

Thinking the output file grew too large for Z-S to handle, I tried the same as above, but with an additional step:

* Used the Make bar to reduce the range of video for export to < 214 seconds, but selected a range of video *after* the 214th second.

In this case, the output file appears to consist of a single frozen frame as the clock ticks onward.

So then I tried again but using an even smaller range of video for export, again from after the 214th second. Same result.

I've tried the same operations using the other compressors available:

Cinepak Code by Radius
Intel Indeo (R) Video R3.2
Microsoft Video 1
Indeo Video 5.10
Microsoft Windows Media Video
Intel I.263 Video Driver 2.55.01
Full Frames (Uncompressed)

Finally, I've encountered the same results trying to process any video beyond the 214th second.

Of course, processing all video for export from before the 214th second works fine.

So bottom line: I'm unable to process any data past the 214th second mark from my original uncompressed AVI.

FWIW, my setup:

Z-S 3.01
Win2000 SP4
1.6 GHz CPU
512 MB RAM

Help?

Well, it doesn't seem to a be a problem with the file contents proper, i.e. the video or audio stream. After splitting the large AVI into chunks < 214 sec in length (< 460 MB), I'm able to process through Z-S just fine. Not terribly surprised, but I had to try it to make sure.

FWIW, my workaround for now is:

1 Use AVCutty* to split the large AVIs into smaller chunks
2 Process uncompressed AVI chunks to Divx encoded chunks
3 Reassmelbe the Divx encoded AVI chunks with VirtualDub#

* Found a LOT of AVI splitters that couldn't handle the uncompressed AVI. Finally found "donationware", aka unenforced shareware, aka nagware, AVCutty: http://www.avcutty.de/english/index.htm

# Reassmbling with AVCutty results in some funky artifacts when jumping around within the AVI, i.e. to different scenes, etc. But VirtualDub's AVI joining works well: http://www.virtualdub.org/

Not an ideal solution, but it works until either a someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or b Z-S resolves the problem (should they choose to do so).