Why does VCDGear cut the beginning/ends of the movie early?
First of all, I am assuming that the movie has been encoded properly and it is not the person who encoded the video that cut the ends too quickly (e.g. to skip the credits because there wasn’t enough space). There have been a few reports about this problem in the past but unfortunately, I have been unable to trace this problem since it has never happened to me. It has not come up as an issue lately. What I can recommend is try all the options. Try extracting the movie with the Fix MPEG Errors (-fix) options turned on, and also try extracting it without the fix options. Then compare the output… are they both still missing the beginning/end? Also you might want to try comparing the output of a DAT and the output of an MPG. If you are using RAW to MPG, try disabling Auto Cut (-nocut) and see if that helps.
