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hi,

new here. been using VLC for years and i love it. I downloaded the new 1.0.0 version and since then all my videos no matter what they are get cut the last 3-4 seconds of playback. When I play the videos in Windows Media Player they play fine til the end. Also, audio at the beginning seems to be halted about 2 seconds before playing. Is there something in the settings I should mess with or is this an issue with the program? Anyone else having this issue?

Sorry i could not find another post about this issue so I wanted to present it to the masses in a new post.

G

Real media videos have this issue, but I haven't heard that other files would suffer from this.

We're having the same problem here, on all our computers. Using VLC 1.0.3 (though doesn't seem to matter which particular rev we have -- they all do it). Running it on Windows XP, some with SP2 and others with SP3. File format is MPEG2, which VLC seems to play just fine, except at the end of the file, where it cuts off the last several frames (or up to a second, it seems). We're using it to view material we've produced and stored, with the very end of the file being the very end of the material (no buffer, by design).

When we watch the files, if audio plays up to the very end, it gets cut off in VLC. We haven't bothered trying other formats, as this is the one format on which we rely. Several workstations tested, with varying versions of VLC (though have tested 1.0.3 on at least two of those machines) with many of the files -- all do the same thing. All the media is what we've produced ourselves, most of it with Adobe Premiere CS4, with standard broadcast resolutions (both SD and HD). All the material plays back fine within Adobe Premiere, Windows Media Player, and when pushed to play-out servers for air. It seems that VLC hurriedly closes the playback window when it believes it has processed the end of the spot, but the rest of the audio/video hasn't actually been pushed out to be heard/viewed. Unsure if some other process running on all these computers might be slowing things such that this might occur, or if the problem is just inherent in VLC's nature.

Perhaps if VLC could have the option to just pause on the last frame, this might be alleviated (and would be a welcome feature as well).

pfurrie: that is known issue, same for opening (some frames are lost from both ends).

pfurrie: that is known issue, same for opening (some frames are lost from both ends).

Thanks. From your August reply, it seemed that you were only aware of Real files being an issue, hence the update.

The issue with Real Media files can be spotted easier, since the cut is much longer (some cases up to 10 seconds and more). Regular pre-cut should be under one second in most cases.