Re: [Thinkpad] PowerDVD, NTFS, and me

That is EXACTLY the problem - the file system has reached it's upper limit.
Installing XP and NTFS cures this, but you can also just set SmartRipper to
max VOB size of 1 gig, which is what it is on a real DVD anyway
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emanuel Brown" <epbrown01@att.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] PowerDVD, NTFS, and me

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:41:14 -0400, "Bruce Markowitz"
> <scosgt@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >NTFS is ABSOLUTELY better than FAT32 if...
> >You need to create and manipulate files bigger than 4 gig.
> >it is also more efficient - A one hour DVD quality video capture on an
A20P
> >one gig (see, it IS ThinkPad related) hits the 4 gig ceiling (actually,
one
> >hour one minute 8 seconds). That is not 4,000,000. It is something like
> >4,137,000 (don't recall the exact number)
> >The same one hour capture on NTFS is only 3.7 gig - probably a 10 or 11%
> >efficiency. Of course, when you burn it to DVD, it goes back up to the
full
> >4.7 gig.
>
> I recently started ripping DVDs to the drive of my 600X and
> encountered a problem. Any movie that came out larger than 4.137GB
> would crash PowerDVD when I attempted to load and play it. I was only
> able to resolve this by splitting the files at the 4GB limit, but
> never found an explanation as to why. The same thing happens on my
> Sony Picturebook, and both systems are W2K with NTFS-only drives.
> Could this simply be a problem with the file system?
> Emanuel
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