Player showing wrong length even though all video is present

[Xqwzt]

Hi

I recently recorded a friend's band giving a live performance, and want to edit the video so that I have separate files for each track. Recording was onto 2 mini-dvds, and the video format on those was .vro
I changed the file extension on the first dvd to .mp4 and then converted to .avi with Leawo AVI converter before editing in VirtualDub. This worked without any problems.

When I tried to repeat the process with the second, before I had made any changes I noticed that the displayed video length on the original .vro was 3:12, even though there are actually about 26 minutes of footage on the disc, all of which I can view in VLC player. The problem arises when I try to convert to .avi: This file now has only the first 3:12 minutes of footage, which is slightly short of one track.

Does anybody know how I can get the full 26 minutes of footage to convert? Or of any freeware that may allow me to edit the .mp4?

Thanks

[aedipuss]

what make and model camera? afaik vro on minidiscs is mpeg-2.

[Xqwzt]

Wow, super-fast reply! It's a Canon DC40. Can't find any mention of encoding in the manual.

[aedipuss]

the discs are supposedly dvd player compliant which makes the video inside the vro files mpeg-2. try opening the vro on the disc with MPEG Streamclip and see what it can come up with.

[Xqwzt]

OK, it said it found timecode breaks as soon as I opened the video, and came up with an option to run a tool to repair these. It seems to have worked, and I'm now exporting the file as an AVI, although it doesn't seem to be compressed but I assume I can compress it when editing in VirtualDub? Thanks for the help, much appreciated!