VLC Player does not recognize full lenght of AVI

[mctommson]

Hey!

I have got a problem since I joined 2 AVIs to one file. VLC Player does not longer recognize the full lenght of the video. Half a hour is missed at the end of the movie.
The Windows Explorer recognizes the full lenght of the video as it is shown under "details".
MediaInfo also does.
Windows Media Player does play until the end, but without sound. I think that is because of a missing audio codec.
PowerDVD does play until the end, with sound. So this program is the only one which really does not make any problems.

How can I "repair" the AVIs so that VLC Player also plays until the end? What could be gone wrong when I joined the movies with BRIZ Video Joiner (Registered Version)? Why is the full lenght of the Video still existing but VLC Player can't "see" it?

Thanks for your help and sorry for my mistakes, I'm actually german

Greez
Tommy

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I don't really know.
VLC reads the header of AVI that must not have been correctly rewritten, this is why...

[VLC_help]

Use Virtualdub or Virtualdubmod for joining, not some crappy payware software.

[mctommson]

Hey, thanks for your answers!

@j-b: Can I change the header of an AVI somehow?

@VLC_help: I actually like this BRIZ Software because it's very easy to join two CDs to one big AVI. I can't work with VirtualDubMod, it's too complex for me. I also use AutoGK to make DVDRips because I have no idea how to configure the settings of VirtualDubMod. Do you have any idea how I can "teach" VLC Player the real lenght of an AVI? WMP and PowerDVD also recognize it.

[Lotesdelere]

@VLC_help: I actually like this BRIZ Software because it's very easy to join two CDs to one big AVI. I can't work with VirtualDubMod, it's too complex for me. I also use AutoGK to make DVDRips because I have no idea how to configure the settings of VirtualDubMod. Do you have any idea how I can "teach" VLC Player the real lenght of an AVI? WMP and PowerDVD also recognize it.

I've just tried a 2.23 GB AVI file and it's working fine for me so there are chances that your movie has been badly joined.

When you cut / join a movie, each sequence MUST start with a I-frame. I'm not sure if VirtualDub(Mod) will even let you cut and join sequences that don't obey this rule.
But your primary video might also have been badly encoded. You may want to try AviDemux which can detect and repair files with an incorrect index and also has a nice feature called 'Smart Copy' which will automatically rebuild the frames when joining sequences.
There are three EXE of AviDemux. Use the avidemux2_gtk.exe because the DI one is the command line version and the QT4 one is way too buggy IMO.

[mctommson]

Thx Lotesdelere for your answer!

AVIDemux is the program I was looking for! It first wanted me to integrate a timeline, then it wanted me to repair the index and rebuild the frames! Then I saved it as AVI (video and audio codec copies).

The AVI is repaired now and I have to say that the quality is also much better (contrast, brightness).

Thank you very much!

[mctommson]

Argh...VirtualDubMod is much faster than BRIZ Software...and it's very easy...

Thanks 4 that VLC_help!