Audio Length Vorbis/Theora

Well I have my Vorbis and Theora code working properly.
There is one little bug i've run into with the audio. The length is being reported as only 9 seconds long. This causes a small little problem with seeking in the file. The Video seeks properly except for a little bug with keyframs that is liveable. But with the length being reported back as only 9 seconds for audio when you seek past the 9 second mark it looses all of the audio. Now i know the audio is there because if I let it just play from the start the audio never drops and says in sync with the video just fine. But move the bar just a little and poof. It looses the audio. I'm fairly certain it's because it thinks the audio is only 9 seconds long.
So my question is how do I manually set the Audio length variable

If you are on certain you will have to make your own vorbis/theora codec or use the one of FOBS o JFFMPEG projects (if the have that codec).

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There simply was No Easy Way to build either the Golden Gate Bridge, the Transcontinental Railway, or the Hoover Dam. There is No Easy Way to do the work that I am doing. There is probably No Easy Way for you to do the work that you want to do. If it gets done at all, let along done well, there will certainly be some Serious Tediousness involved. That is for sure.
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