2013-05-25, 07:21
I'm posting this in the forums to see if anyone else has run across this behavior before possibly adding to the bug tracker.
The issue is that, after cutting a file with the program Avidemux, XBMC reports the duration to be ridiculously long (60hrs, 72hrs, etc). I initially figured this to be an issue with Avidemux, but Windows media player and VLC both report the duration correctly. This is not a game-breaking bug, however - the video plays fine and finishes when it should - it only displays the incorrect duration.
I've made a small file that can be used for testing (6MB). It's only the intro to Adventure Time, but I've named it so that XBMC will recognize it as episode 21 of season 5. Here it is:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1964...0intro.avi
This is a screen capture of what it looks like (In this case it reports the duration as 2hrs 12 minutes, when it is actually 24 seconds):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/196458/duration.jpg
Here is the same file in Windows Media Player and VLC (which both correctly identify it as 24 seconds long):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1964...on_wmp.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1964...on_vlc.jpg
I'm sure the easy thing is to blame the software I used to cut the file, but I feel that is irrelevant if other programs have no issue correctly identifying the duration. Please let me know if this is already in the bug tracker, or if there is an easy fix. Thanks!
The issue is that, after cutting a file with the program Avidemux, XBMC reports the duration to be ridiculously long (60hrs, 72hrs, etc). I initially figured this to be an issue with Avidemux, but Windows media player and VLC both report the duration correctly. This is not a game-breaking bug, however - the video plays fine and finishes when it should - it only displays the incorrect duration.
I've made a small file that can be used for testing (6MB). It's only the intro to Adventure Time, but I've named it so that XBMC will recognize it as episode 21 of season 5. Here it is:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1964...0intro.avi
This is a screen capture of what it looks like (In this case it reports the duration as 2hrs 12 minutes, when it is actually 24 seconds):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/196458/duration.jpg
Here is the same file in Windows Media Player and VLC (which both correctly identify it as 24 seconds long):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1964...on_wmp.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1964...on_vlc.jpg
I'm sure the easy thing is to blame the software I used to cut the file, but I feel that is irrelevant if other programs have no issue correctly identifying the duration. Please let me know if this is already in the bug tracker, or if there is an easy fix. Thanks!