Forgot to send you a link to the MP3 audio track (740K):
http://content.serveftp.net/video/truncate/test.m3a

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 00:54 -0500, Scott C. Frase wrote:
> Guys,
> I have a problem with the contents of a rendered m2v file.  Cinelerra
> seems to be truncating the end of the video when I drag and drop it in
> the timeline.
> 
> Originally, I created a project based on DVD VOB files.  I cropped them
> to 720x404 (roughly 16x9).  Here is a link to that original projects'
> format specs:
> http://content.serveftp.net/video/truncate/sourceProjectFormat.png 
> 
> I then rendered a small section of the audio and video using FFMPEG and
> a YUV4MPEG stream, but in the command line for ffmpeg, I add "-s
> 480x270" to proportionally reduce the resolution of the video so that it
> is still in 16:9 format.  This command works and it renders to the hard
> drive.  When I play the file
> http://content.serveftp.net/video/truncate/test.m2v (5MB)
> 
> in mplayer, the file plays the full length of the video correctly and I
> get the following output:
> http://content.serveftp.net/video/truncate/mplayerOutput.txt 
> 
> However, when I create a new Cinelerra project based on the following
> format:
> http://content.serveftp.net/video/truncate/destinationProjectFormat.png 
> 
> the video (VIDEO 1 in the picture) gets truncated as you can see in this
> screen shot:
> http://content.serveftp.net/video/truncate/truncate.png 
> 
> Normally, the video timeline should match the audio timeline shown at
> the bottom of that picture.  But it doesn't.  The few other videos you
> see in that picture are my trial and errors to figure out why this was
> happening.  The videos that appear to line up correctly to the video are
> renders that I did using the out-of-the-box rendering settings for a DVD
> format using both ffmpeg: (VIDEO 3 in the picture)
>  ffmpeg -f yuv4mpegpipe -i - -y -target dvd -ilme -ildct -hq -f
> mpeg2video %
> 
> and mpeg2enc (VIDEO 4 in the picture):
> mpeg2enc -f 8 -o %
> 
> I even used ffmpeg on the command line outside of Cinelerra to reduce
> the video, but when I brought it into Cin, it was still truncated (VIDEO
> 2 in the picture).
> 
> I'm thinking that mpeg3toc might be having trouble creating table of
> contents for videos with odd resolutions.  Again, my video is 480x270.
> I don't know any other programs to create table of contents index files
> for mpegs, so I can't test my theory.  
> 
> I'd like to be able to resize my videos within Cinelerra, but this is a
> problem.  The fact that the videos work in mplayer tell me that either
> mpeg3toc is not creating table of contents correctly or Cinelerra is
> having some other sort of trouble interpreting the table of contents
> files.
> 
> Does anyone know of any other programs beside mpeg3toc to create a
> Cinelerra usable table of contents?  
> 
> Can I use the table of contents files in any other program to validate
> if they are correct or not?
> 
> Or maybe I'm just not thinking correct and there is an easy way around
> this problem?
> 
> please help!
> scott
> 
> 
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