Really sorry about that - That was a typo and I actually meant PowerDirector

Same company and they merged names in my mind

That'll be the 4Gb file limit then present under FAT32. Basically you will not be able to have a file that is bigger than 4Gb in size. Video files take up a lot of room uncompressed so the only real way to get around it is to either compress on the fly (MPEG or whatever) or record in chunks and ...

Don't like the look of that much - I stick to the original Windows 98 WMP style

Program Files/Windows Media Player/mplayer2.mpg

Much cleaner and less bloated so loads much faster 8)

I capture a lot and do notice some intense hard disc activity, depends on how it encodes though. A huffyuv AVI causes constant hard disc activity and slowdown by the shear amount of data to save to disc whereas my MPEG2 encoder causes the disc light to blink occasionally and a flashing icon in the ...

I've got surge protection on my modem and while never triggered for me is quite a good option

I've got a Netgear ADSL Modem/Router and that tends to get particularly hot - heat and electronics don't go well together - maybe its overheating

I've converted files using PowerDVD from AVI (MPEGv4 encoded) to MPEGs.

My version was free on a cover disc but I believe a demo is avaliable. Look on Cyberlink's website

Antz wrote:

FraserGJ wrote:This will remove all of v4/5 apparently (don't have ECDC 4 or 5)

Its a brute force method though so there are a lot of warnings

Thanks very much! Startup a lot quicker now. .

My pleasure

Unfortunately, it keeps crashing saying that the FAT32 file can only support a certain amount of memory (4MB from memory, I think). I am running Windows 2000 Pro and have 29GB worth of free space.

That'll be the 4Gb file limit then present under FAT32. Basically you will not be able to have a ...

This will remove all of v4/5 apparently (don't have ECDC 4 or 5)

Its a brute force method though so there are a lot of warnings

http://softwareupdates.roxio.com/gm/sup ... oxizap.exe

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;810978

IE and Windows are a hackers/malicious-software-writers' paradise

Converted to Mozilla Firefox now - even got my die-hard-IE-fan brother to do it too