VLC bug? DV AVI Vegas

[TheFalcon]

Hi,

After I edit a DV AVI project I export it to PAL DV AVi 25fps with Sony Vegas.
But when I try to play it with VLC Media Player it shows that the video is only 4:42 minutes long.
Normal DV AVI's play normal but the one's exported from Vegas all show 4:42.
Media Player classics plays it normal.

I think I've never had this problem. Sometimes VLC used to had difficulties with DV AVI but that was normal.
I've tried 1.05 and 1.03, both same problem.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Please share a sample.

[TheFalcon]

The DV AVI's are HUGE. But I will try to upload a part of it.

[TheFalcon]

I've exported a 1 minute and 5 minute video. VLC plays it normal (and shows normal time).
The video's near the 1 hour are trouble. The 5 minute video is already 1,11GB so it doesn't gonna work uploading I think.

Does someone have experience DV AVI exporting in Vegas here? Or can someone test it out?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Ok, this is annoying...

[TheFalcon]

Wait Im gonna ask at Videohelp

[VLC_help]

Remuxing the AVI with e.g. Virtualdub fixes the issue?

[TheFalcon]

Strange after I add the rendered DV AVI (corrupted?) to Vegas and export again to DV AVI, VLC plays it fine.
Re-rendering DV AVI wouldnt do any quality loss as I understand.

[TheFalcon]

Remuxing the AVI with e.g. Virtualdub fixes the issue?

I dont like the sound of remuxing

[VLC_help]

I dont like the sound of remuxing

It just same as saving video and audio stream to new file. It is lossless operation.

[TheFalcon]

I dont like the sound of remuxing

It just same as saving video and audio stream to new file. It is lossless operation.

But still Im scared of out of sync etc. Have bad experience with remuxing.
But the good thing is that after re-rendering the DV-AVI, VLC plays it normal.
Just thought it was a bug of VLC, so wanted to find out of someone had the same experience.

[michail090]

I have so far rendered 2 files in Vegas 9. Both with the Pal DV widescreen Teplate settings.
One is 15 minutes long and the other is 35 mins long.
BOTH only play up to 4:42 on VLC. They play flawlessly on Media player and I have exported the complete videos with VSO to DVD..They play fine.
I can't figure out the 4:42 issue

[TheFalcon]

Hi michail,
yes I've solved it.
You have to add the DV-AVi (exported with vegas) again to vegas and re-render to DV-AVI.
Then VLC will play it normal.

Re-rendering to DV-AVI will NOT cause any quality loss.

[TheFalcon]

Now I have converted a 25.000fps PAL DV to 25.002fps in VitualDub (direct stream copy).
When I play the new file, VLC shows time is 62 hours 45 min 48 seconds.
I think there is something wrong with VLC, cause this used to work.
Maybe someone could try this and comment?

[VLC_help]

Timecodes are either wrong or corrupted or there is a bug in VLC. Any sample file you could share to us that shows the time issue?

[TheFalcon]

This problem occurs with longer video's. I can't upload it anywhere, since it's huge.
But you can convert every video file to DV AVi and test it out with VirtualDub (and then change framerate and export again to DV AVI).

[wakdady]

I am having this problem as well. I've tried re-rendering and that doesnt work either. The file will play fine with windows media player.
However, when i upload to youtube, it only shows the 4:42.
I can render the file in mpg just fine and vlc plays at the whole way. It's only .avi that is the problem.
I also have ffdshow installed. could this be a problem?

anyhelp would be great, because this truly sucks!

[VLC_help]

I also have ffdshow installed. could this be a problem?

Only if you use ffdshow encoders with Vegas.

[TheFalcon]

You mean youtube shows the video is only 4:42 long?
Then it can't be a VLC bug.

Maybe a codec conflict problem (cause I also had this with VirtualDub. Last time I rendered a DV AVI once without problems