Alcorn Mcbride Digital Binloop HD, User Manual

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Alcorn McBride Binloop User’s Manual Page 91
File System Limitation – 4GB File Size
If the File Splitter
software is no longer
available, please
obtain the latest
manual from the
Alcorn McBride
website, or contact
technical support for
the latest
recommended method
for splitting files.
The Binloop HD uses the FAT32 file system to store files on its Compact
Flash cards. This file system is widely used, and will allow your flash cards to
be accessible from any Windows based PC or MAC computer.
Although the supported volume size of Compact Flash cards is much larger,
the maximum file size supported by FAT32 is 4GB. Your computer will
prevent you from copying a file any larger than this to the Compact Flash
card.
If your application requires a longer playback time than a 4GB limitation will
allow, the best solution is ‘split’ the file into several segments using a file-
splitting program. One suggestion is a software package called File Splitter,
which can be downloaded at http://www.filesplitter.org/. Using this method, a
large file can be separated into several segments which a reproducer can
treat as a single coherent video file. Here’s how it works.
Let’s say that you have encoded a 10GB Transport Stream file that you want
to play in the Binloop HD. First, you will need to use a utility (like File
Splitter) to divide this file into several chunks smaller than 4GB. To be safe,
you could divide the file into 2GB chunks. When the splitting process is
complete, you should have 5 files. Rename those files like this:
VID00001.MPG
VID00001.001
VID00001.002
VID00001.003
VID00001.004
Keep in mind that VID00001.MPG is the first segment, VID00001.001 is the
second segment, and so on. When you are finished renaming the files, copy
them to the reproducer’s Compact Flash card.
At this point, all you have to do is treat VID00001.MPG as you normally
would. For example, if you send a command to Play File #1, the reproducer
will automatically play through all of the file chunks without you having to do
anything special. You can also send a command to Loop File #1, and the
entire file will loop from start to finish just as you would expect.