converting from MOV always cuts the last two seconds

[SenSur]

I have a LUMIX Digicam and besides .jpg-pictures I take short video clips (HD-720p) stored in .MOV-format.
When I use VLC media player (LinuxMint or(!) WindowsXP) to play these files everything works fine in general.
But when I try to convert these files from .MOV into an other format like MPEG or MP4 or any format else always(?) the exactly last two(2) seconds are cut off - a 10-seconds-clip is only 8 seconds long.
Are there any option(s) to adjust this that I haven't found where

Thanks in advance
a VLC-newbie
SenSur

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Try VLC 1.2

[fbouljon]

I have this problem too, converting from AVI (from my camera) to MP4.
I did not try other formats and I didn't try other settings (yet), but I lose the last seconds every time.
And VLC 1.2 does not exist. At least 1.1.11 seems to be the latest version...

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Yes it does. We have VLC 1.2.0-test1 out already.

[fbouljon]

Okay, I found it (in the developers section) but things got worse: now I can't play my old mp4 files anymore: it opens, shows the first frame, but blocks.
I downgraded again to vlc 1.1.11 and it still blocks! The interface (buttons) suggest that it is playing, but it doesn't play anything (there's no progress either). The menus react fine, so it's not completely crashed.
Not really funny, this way...
Any suggestions to get it working again?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Okay, I found it (in the developers section) but things got worse: now I can't play my old mp4 files anymore: it opens, shows the first frame, but blocks.
I downgraded again to vlc 1.1.11 and it still blocks! The interface (buttons) suggest that it is playing, but it doesn't play anything (there's no progress either). The menus react fine, so it's not completely crashed.
Not really funny, this way...
Any suggestions to get it working again?

What is your OS? and your file? What exact version of VLC did you take?

[fbouljon]

Hi,

I'm using Windows XP Media Center Edition (on a HP Pavilion dv6000).

The original problem - shortening a movie by 2 seconds during conversion - happened will all the avi files that I recorded with my Canon IXUS 50. (no other input files tested) with vlc 1.1. I converted one file to mp4 with vlc 1.2, but I haven't been able to play the result.

Now I apparently cannot play any mp4 file anymore... I doubleclick on an avi file (in windows explorer) and no vlc window shows up. However the Task Manager lists two vlc.exe processes...

Oh wait. If I kill the vlc.exe processes, I can play the avi files again, but the mp4 files (created with vlc 1.1.11 or vlc 1.2 either) make the image freeze. After pressing the stop button the playback stops and I can't get it to play anything again, except by killing the vlc.exe process... :-/

The problems didn't go away by installing vlc 1.1.11 again. Before I installed vlc 1.2 I could perfectly play the mp4 files...
The vlc 1.2 version I used was vlc-1.2.0-pre1-20111106-0003-win32.exe.

Is there a better (read: more stable) version of vlc 1.2 ?

Thanks,
Filip