[X4U] BTV Pro errors

[Stroller]

On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:30 pm, Nick Scalise wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The problem:
>>>> I'm getting an error message (999,-3) after a couple of minutes of
>>>> recording. I'm using an empty, brand-new 200GB hard drive, so I 
>>>> don't
>>>> think space is the issue.
>
> Well, have you tried different codec settings in BTV. How did you 
> format your harddrive? Is it HFS or HFS Extended? Are you capturing to 
> a firewire drive or is it your iMac's internal drive?

This is exactly the sort of error I'd expect to see if sending a volume 
of data to a FAT32-formatted disk - I think there's a file-size limit 
of around around 6 or 7gig when copying files to one of my external 
drives (which are all FAT32). I'd guess that  many external hard-drives 
are shipped from the factory pre-formatted in FAT32, so that may be the 
filesystem if it's brand-new & he's simply plugged it in & used it?

I don't do any video stuff, so I have no idea how quickly the OP is 
likely to be dumping data his hard-drive and whether my guess really 
meshes with his statement that he sees the error after "a couple of 
minutes", but I would certainly want to be testing with a different 
drive (preferably the system one) in order to isolate the "empty, 
brand-new 200GB hard drive" from the problem.

Stroller.