CatDV playing half of the proxy

[Rolf Howarth]

What version of the worker are you using? Are you on the latest 5.0.2 update at https://www.squarebox.com/download/?

Also, what frame rate are the movies?

[Jeff Schaap]

Whoo hoo! I just solved this problem (for our workflow anyhow).

First, I downloaded the Xuggle library from here: https://www.squarebox.co.uk/download/Xuggle-4.0.1065.pkg

as referenced in the CatDV online manual. Then I went into CatDV and set the following preferences:

Preferences > Import >

Under Importing media check Quicktime and Xuggle

Under Importing media dropdown select Prefer Xuggle

Under known media types UNCHECK the option “Enable MPEG parser…

That last step was the key. My guess is that by doing that it forces CatDV to import the MTS files with Xuggle. Xuggle correctly reads the length of the clips! Now CatDV plays the full length of the proxy instead of only half the clip.

I had avoided Xuggle because we tried it once for MTS playback and frankly it was awful. But by just using it to import the MTS files and read the proper length and letting it play proxies it works great.

[Jeff Schaap]

Look like WorkerNode 4.0.1d. The files I was testing are 30 FPS althought others (that I have not tested) are 60 FPS.