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abemishler
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Videos Cut Short by 2-5 seconds

The Roku player is cutting my videos at the end by an estimated 2-5 seconds (on average). Has anyone else dealt with this problem and fixed it?

My videos are in mp4 format, and are post-processed through "mp4box -isma" to place the "moov atom" at the front of the files which allows them to stream.

My Roku HD player is up-to-date with the 2.8 b1158

Thanks,
Abe
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TheEndless
Channel Surfer

Re: Videos Cut Short by 2-5 seconds

I don't have a fix, but I can confirm that the same happens to all of the videos in my Onion News Network channel.
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RokuMarkn
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Re: Videos Cut Short by 2-5 seconds

Is it possible that the audio track is ending before the video, or vice versa? The player will stop playing when either of the tracks ends.

--Mark
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TheEndless
Channel Surfer

Re: Videos Cut Short by 2-5 seconds

"RokuMarkn" wrote:
Is it possible that the audio track is ending before the video, or vice versa? The player will stop playing when either of the tracks ends.

--Mark

In the Onion videos, it's usually cut off mid-word, and they play to completion in other players, so I'd say probably not.
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RokuKevin
Visitor

Re: Videos Cut Short by 2-5 seconds

Can you point us to a publicly accessible url that exhibits this behavior?

Thanks

--Kevin
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TheEndless
Channel Surfer

Re: Videos Cut Short by 2-5 seconds

"RokuKevin" wrote:
Can you point us to a publicly accessible url that exhibits this behavior?

Thanks

--Kevin

Here are three from The Onion. They're not quite as dramatic as 2-5 seconds, but the end is clearly cut short...
http://videos.theonion.com/onion_video/ ... ta-flv.mp4
http://videos.theonion.com/onion_video/ ... ir-flv.mp4
http://videos.theonion.com/onion_video/ ... ti-flv.mp4
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em_lazardo
Visitor

Re: Videos Cut Short by 2-5 seconds

Don't subscribe to the onion private channel, but the three samples appear cut short in an ordinary flash browser playback.

Cheers,

The Apple rent a geek friend bit was so close to real...
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TheEndless
Channel Surfer

Re: Videos Cut Short by 2-5 seconds

"em.lazardo" wrote:
Don't subscribe to the onion private channel, but the three samples appear cut short in an ordinary flash browser playback.
Cheers,
The Apple rent a geek friend bit was so close to real...

Wow.. you're absolutely right. I'm not sure how I missed that. Sorry about that, Kevin!
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buenafe
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Re: Videos Cut Short by 2-5 seconds

I'm playing catch up with Roku development. Recently, I downloaded some of my YouTube flv files, then converted them to mp4 format using various settings in handbrake GUI and handbrakeCLI. I was able to convert most of them with no problems, but I found a few video files which are cut short by a few seconds (as mentioned in this thread).

When I play the files on the PC, I don't see this problem.

Has anybody found a way to solve this problem. I tried to convert files to AVI then to MP4/M4V. This didn't help either.
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RokuKevin
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Re: Videos Cut Short by 2-5 seconds

If your audio and video are not the same length, the Roku will stop playback when the first track ends. The workaround would be to make the audio and video tracks the same length (insert white noise are black slate as appropriate to the end of the short track).

--Kevin
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