Why I cant record a video up to 2 hours or 3,8gb?

[Android Central Question]

Hello, I cant record a video in my tablet up to 2 hours or up to 3,8gb. I have used more than 3 application and its the same. It automatically stops in that duration. Do i have to change something in settings of the tablet? In the applications i choose never stop!

 

[chanchan05]

No, there's nothing you can do about it directly. It's a limitation of the FAT32 storage system. FAT32 stores 32-bit file sizes and the maximum you can store in 32 bits is 2^32-1 ~= 4.29e9. 2^32-1 bytes = 4GB - 1 byte. It's a natural limitation of the format. Android uses this because it's got universal interoperability with nearly every single OS in the planet. Windows and MacOS uses different formats to store larger file sizes, but if you choose NFTS (Windows) or whatever proprietary format Apple uses on Macs, it won't work properly on the other.
You can get around this limitation on your tablet/phone by using an SD card formatted to exFAT. You have to use a PC to format the card to exFAT to make it take files larger than 4GB. You can then make your camera save directly to the card. to not hit that file format limitation.

 

[Rukbat]

And 4GB is 3.8gB. 1gB=1,000 * 1,000 * 1,000 bytes. 1GB = 1,024 * 1,024 * 1,024 bytes.