Back to an old problem with ffmpeg XviDs. I'm sure a lot of people have experienced this. It has driven me crazy in the past. The ffmpeg created .avi seems perfectly fine except nothing but VLC sees the entire movie. Everything else usually only sees the first 1.5 hours or so. Almost impossible to fix...

A Fix! Fairly easy too. I was able to fix this problem using D-Vision 3.15. Go to the 'Tools' section, 'Re-encoding avi/mpg', load the movie by dragging it into the window, then use the 'Extraction of the video track'. For some reason, D-Vision wants to re-encode the audio if you use it to 'Extraction of an audio track', so I use ffmpegX to extract the Audio track I want.

Then, use the 'Add audio track' function to mux the extracted video and audio. The result is an .AVI that works correctly in Quicktime...and everything else. So far, it has fixed three movies that had this problem.

It would be nice to 'fix this problem at the source'. As in, why does this happen? My guess is that ffmpeg is creating a timecode break at the 1GB mark. It seems that this only happens with AVIs that are over 1GB. This, for me, is around the 1.5 hour mark in the movie. Anyway to resolve this issue? Anyone know of an easier 'Fix'? Comments...Suggestions?