G'day All, 4gig is the file size limit for most operating systems, I think the latest 64 bit operating systems support over 4gig though. That is why fraps does this and fraps captures in uncompressed AVI to retain video quality, which is the reason for the large file size.
Regards
Barrie
Hello, I am a newcomer here!
I just wanted to correct this info and give some more:
The OS type (32-bit vs. 64-bit) does not matter here. Only the file system used matters.
Usually, on Windows we have 3 file systems - FAT32 (old), NTFS, and exFAT (newest).
FAT32 has a limit of about 4 GB (minus 1 byte) per file. NTFS does not have that limit. exFAT also does not have a limit, but works only for external drives, not internal.
So, if you use latest Fraps and do not use FAT32 to record the movies, you should be fine. Fraps also has a "Split movie every 4 Gigabytes" option, so you need to make sure that is UN-checked.
And yes, Fraps creates very large files, so using a format converter program is often necessary. Good paid software that does this well is ArcSoft Media Converter, Xilisoft Video Converter.
A good free one is Handbrake.
There are others too, but you should look for one that has a GPU-accelerated mode, which makes the conversion much faster. There is also software that uses Intel CPUs QuickSync function to perform a fast conversion, but you need a high-end Intel CPU (for example, Core i5 or i7, but not i3), and just a few conversion softwares support this Intel feature.
I hope the above could be helpful to others too.
EDIT: At the time of this post (Jan 2013), the latest version of Fraps is 3.5.9 (from August 2012).
The first Fraps version that can write files larger than 4 GBs to NTFS drives is Fraps 3.5.0 (from April 2012), and the next one (3.5.1, from May 2012) adds the same for exFAT drives.
The payware version of Fraps will allow unlimited videos, however, for some reason, Fraps limits the .avi file to just above 4,100 KB and then starts a new file. These files can be combined in just about any video editing software without losing a framerate.
I experienced this while creating the videos on my site.
Joe
I assume you mean 4,1000 MBs? (4 GBs)