Update on .avi and toast, figured something out, still need more...

[Traumamc]

Hi guys,

I figured out part of the toast .avi problem. When I use the Divx FFmepg the new file works perfectly in VLC. VLC plays the entire file. I just tried to play the file in Quicktime and discovered that it is doing what Toast is doing. Basically only reading the .avi to the 1 hour and 26 minute point. It does not think there is anything past that (although there is!).

Anyone have a suggestion? Is there something in quicktime that only allows the .avi to be 1 hour 26 minutes long? How can i get around this?

[TugBoat]

...Anyone have a suggestion? Is there something in quicktime that only allows the .avi to be 1 hour 26 minutes long? How can i get around this?

Yeah, don't encode a ffmpeg AVI that's over 1GB in size. This has been a long standing, known bug in ffmpegX. Known to me anyway;
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=293905
And if you do some searching, I'm sure you can find posts about it from a very long time ago.

Another recent post;
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1530605&highlight=#1530605

Since this happens in QuickTime, it's probably going to happen in any App that uses QT to work with AVIs, that includes Toast, MPEG Streamclip, Real Media Player, and many more. It also affects ffmpegX in the Same Way. Drop that new AVI into ffmpegX and I'll bet you it only sees 86 minutes of movie. Try doing a ffmpegX Video Passthrough on that new AVI and you will also only get the first 1GB of audio/video out of ffmpegX.

BTW, the fix mentioned in my first link still works with D-Vision 3.2.2. There appears to be a bug in the Audio Direct Stream Copy part of D-Vision so I still recommend using ffmpegX to extract the Audio track from the original AVI for use in D-Vision.

It would be nice if these bugs were fixed....