[MEncoder-users] Audio longer than video

[Gary Mort]

When I convert a WMV file(containing version 8 video and version 9 
audio) to Flash, I keep getting the last 5 seconds of the video truncated.

Now, the video consists of still pictures grabbed from a seperate video, 
and during the recording the stills are marked up to instruct the user.

What I think is happening is the guy making the video starts with a 
blank screen, and 5 seconds in inserts his first video picture.

So when mencoder runs, I'm guessing it skips to the first non blank part 
of the video and syncs that to the beginning of the audio.  And when the 
video ends, the last 5 seconds of audio get lost.

Is there any way to tell mencoder that I want the whole audio converted 
or not to skip the blank into in the video?  Is my guess right on why 
this would happen?(if you view the video in Windows Media Player, it 
will show the first image at the beginning of the movie and play to the 
end.  However, if I use VLC to play it I do see an opening blank screen 
while the guy is yammering.  Which is making it hard to convince the guy 
that he is doing anything wrong.)

-Gary