ffmpegX: errors with split avi

[Mildew]

I have an Xvid avi (350 megs) which I can convert to VCD without difficulty. I wanted to test the various quality settings in ffmpegX, but I didn't want to have to convert the entire avi each time. So I used ffmpegs' avi splitter to split the avi into two chunks, one 3 mins, the other 42 mins.

However, now when I try to encode the 3 min chunk as VCD, I get a bunch of errors in the terminal:

Welcome to Darwin!
[h24-80-21-153:~] user% pbpaste | sh
Encoding started on Wed Jan 29 21:18:25 PST 2003
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
/Jrmhavi.part1.avi: Error while opening file
**ERROR: [yuvscaler] Could'nt read YUV4MPEG header!
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)!
/Jrmhavi.part1.avi: Error while opening file
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/04/20 19:08:30 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /jrmh.m1v for reading.
rm: /jrmh.m1v: No such file or directory
rm: /jrmh.mp2: No such file or directory
(Super) VideoCD xml description created successfully as `/jrmh.mpg.xml'
++ WARN: initializing libvcd 0.7.12 [darwin5.2/powerpc]
++ WARN:
++ WARN: this is the UNSTABLE development branch!
++ WARN: use only if you know what you are doing
++ WARN: see http://www.hvrlab.org/~hvr/vcdimager/ for more information
++ WARN:
**ERROR: could not stat() file `/jrmh.mpg': No such file or directory
Encoding completed on Wed Jan 29 21:18:28 PST 2003

Why isn't this working? Is there an easier or better way to just encode a view minutes of an avi?

[Mildew]

Geez, no one has an answer or even a suggestion as to what's wrong? Does anyone know how to only encode a portion of a vcd or other video file for test purposes?

I've found out that if your original movie isn't in your movie section under users and if you saved your movie anywhere else but the movie section under users that FFMPEG x (0.04.d) creates errors.

Hopefully that helps.

Matt