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No AVI files after recording, only two WAV
I made quite a long recording the other day and when I finished I pressed stop and the window to save the file popped up, I named it 'd' and clicked OK, but an error message appeared, something about the audio. I became anxious so I didn't write down what it said and I closed it in a rush and now I don't remember. But when I went to check the file there are 3:
1 notepad named 'd'
1 WAV called '~temp-20110607_1723_32' that weighs 397MB
1 WAV titled 'd' that weighs 3,47 GB!
The temp file can be played but I can't hear anything, and the 3,47GB file gives me an error when I try to open it. The notepad says '2.6<\version>294<\release><\recorder>'
I cannot grasp the idea that just like that, in those few seconds, I lost all of the recording that was very important, and at the same time have almost 4GBs of useless WAV's. Can anyone help me? Otherwise I can't trust this program anymore, which is a shame because the older version that looked simpler never gave me trouble.
1 notepad named 'd'
1 WAV called '~temp-20110607_1723_32' that weighs 397MB
1 WAV titled 'd' that weighs 3,47 GB!
The temp file can be played but I can't hear anything, and the 3,47GB file gives me an error when I try to open it. The notepad says '2.6<\version>294<\release><\recorder>'
I cannot grasp the idea that just like that, in those few seconds, I lost all of the recording that was very important, and at the same time have almost 4GBs of useless WAV's. Can anyone help me? Otherwise I can't trust this program anymore, which is a shame because the older version that looked simpler never gave me trouble.
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Once the file is in VD, be sure that the Video option is set to Direct Stream Copy, not Full Processing as is its default (be sure to check that Audio is also Direct Stream Copy, which it should be since that's its default). Once both video and audio are confirmed to be set, process with F7. VD will ask you for a file name -- being essentially lazy, I usually just put "VirtDub" at the beginning of the existing file name to make it easy to associate the two files. Be sure you designate where the file is to go.
I've had to use this procedure occasionally when for some reason I let the file get too big or for some unknown reason. So far it's worked, producing a file that's at least usable, although there might be some more editing needed. But I figured that was better than having a totally unusable file.
Good luck!
This latest version has a couple of things that I use almost every time, now. For my purposes of captures I set a time for the capture to go no longer than. It's still pretty much guesswork as the file still runs over occasionally, but for my purposes I basically just "set it and forget it" (shades of Ron Popeil) while the capture proceeds but I'm working on other things.
I'd suggest you read through Terry's posts on Xvid and watch his videos on the same subject. As I said, I intend to when I've finished a few things.