simple record - file size limit?

[thumbsplint]

got my recorder two days ago and started digitizing my dvd collection. worked great on the first couple tries (kill bill vol 1 and team america) using the simple record method with an output of wqvga at fine quality. last night i tried recording kill bill vol 2 using the same settings and when i went back to review the files, the recorder had broken up the movie into two separate files -- one big one of approximately the first 2 hours of the movie and roughly 705MB and a smaller one of the last 16 minutes of movie. during that period i did not touch the remote or do anything to the machine. there is a five second gap between the two recordings. Any thoughts on how this happened and if there's a file size limit or other speculation?

apologies if this has already been answered. . .

[misfit5]

This is the topic referred to in a couple of other threads (usually under a title similar to '2-hour time limit) The system automatically will break a file into two parts at the two hour mark. Here's a link to one of the threads.

http://www.neurosaudio.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6900


Hope this helps

[thumbsplint]

thanks misfit5. i tried one of the editors suggested in the forum (squared5's mpeg streamclip) and while it's great at trimming i'm having trouble with piecing two files together so i can watch 2+ hours continuously. do readers have suggestions on what mpeg editors to use that are relatively affordable?

i was considering using quicktime pro but was scared off by the negative reviews from winxp users.

[bonnefoi(at)unilim.fr]

To join two MP4 files with mpeg streamclip from Squared5, just follow this :
- open the last file ;
- select what you want ;
- copy it (ctrl-C) ;
- open now the first file ;
- go to the end ;
- paste (ctrl-v) ;
You have now the two pieces in one !
let save it with .mp4 extension

you made it  ![]

Pierre-Francois Bonnefoi