Re: [hatari-users] AVI Record problem

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 11/07/2017 à 15:42, Grazey a écrit :
> On 11/07/2017 11:00, Douglas Little wrote:
> >     it would be nice if Hatari could do this by itself. Eg, recording
> >     into multiple files if it's going above 2 GB. When recording some
> >     demos (like I did for Relix, which is 3+ hours long) it's a pain
> >     to keep track of the recording size. And if you by mistake miss a
> >     few bytes after two hours, yeap - do it from the start again :)
> >
> >     Also on Windows (which is what Grazey runs), will it show the file
> >     size before it's closed? If not, the manual approach is not possible.
> >
> >     And finally, if you do a longplay video of a game, it's not really
> >     an option to keep watching the file size..
>
> Yeah that would be really useful as you can't change AVI destination 
> once within the Hatari win GUI.
>
> Cheers
> Phil

My bad, I thought it was similar to audio wav recording (you can choose 
the filename), but it's not.

I see AVI specs 2.0 can have extra AVIX chunks to have > 2GB in the end. 
I will try to look at this someday (but it might not be soon)

In the meantime you can 10 record minutes for example, save memory 
snapshot, exit hatari and copy avi somewhere ; then restart hatari from 
the command line to restore the memory snapshot and record avi ; repeat 
as many times as needed.
This way you will have seamless avi files, even if it still require some 
manual operations. Those file can then be merged using some avi tools.

Nicolas