Roxio Toast cuts video's short

[HitTheRoad]

I'm trying to burn 18 music video's on one DVD, using Roxio Toast 10. All video's end up with the last seconds missing.

What's happening?

The video's all are MPEG2. I ripped them from DVD. I converted the VOB's tot MPEG2 using MPEGStreamclip.
Alle video's are played fully in VLC and MPlayer OSX Extended.

The music video's are cut short before they are being burned. If I make a disc image the same thing happens.

[HitTheRoad]

Mystery solved! Roxio Toast wasn't cutting MPEG2's short. MPEGStreamclip simply did a bad VOB-to-MPEG2 conversion.

I converted the VOB's again to MPEG2, this time using Avidemux2. Then I burned them again to DVD using Roxio Toast. All video's are playing fine now.

[Case]

Mystery solved! Roxio Toast wasn't cutting MPEG2's short. MPEGStreamclip simply did a bad VOB-to-MPEG2 conversion.

I think the developer of MPEG Streamclip may be interested in this, as the app is usually quite reliable.

[hech54]

The music video's are cut short before they are being burned. If I make a disc image the same thing happens.


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I'm surprised you got anything viable at all. You are trusting Roxio to re-encode PAL clips to NTSC(or vise versa)?

[HitTheRoad]

@ Case: If you know how to contact the developer of MPEG Streamclip, please forward this to him. I sent a mail once to MPEG Streamclip (about another issue), but I didn't get a reply.

Forum member Cornucopia mentioned elsewhere on the Video Help forum that MPEGStreamClip has some bugs, "particularly as regards MPEG conversions. It relies on Quicktime API to do most of it's work, and this has known inadequacies regarding MPEG1 & 2. It's good for some things, but I'd NEVER use it for merging".


@ hech54: Can you please explain yourself? I didn't re-encode PAL clips to NTSC (or vice versa). I just converted VOB to MPEG2.