Mdworker, system.log, and VLC Media Player

I downloaded some small videos from Google video that were originally from a digital camera but downloading them from google saved them as .mp4 supposedly ipod format. They seem to play fine with VLC Media player however I noticed 2 things while playing them.
1) The mdworker process loaded down my cpu to about 130% usage for an extended period of time even after closing VLC. From my understanding mdworker is a process usually used by spotlight for indexing? Then why would this process be running? I unmounted all of my external drives and spotlight didn't show that it was indexing anything.
2) I saw the syslogd process come up in Activity Monitor so it reminded me to check the system.log and I found the log was filling up with entries that look like they are from VLC Media Player. The log is currently over 300MB should I clear it out now or just wait for the maintenance to take care of it?
Here is part of the log:
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54113386026144; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54113520243872; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54113520243880; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54113654461608; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54113654461616; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54113788679344; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54113788679352; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54113922897080; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54113922897088; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54114057114816; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54114057114824; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54114191332552; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54114191332560; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 [0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]: OQT_MovieImport: fseek_store: tried to seek to 54114325550288; outside of file
Jan 31 14:19:37 Macintosh-2 com.apple.launchd[77] ([0x0-0x320320].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[16987]): Exited: Terminated
Jan 31 14:20:39 Macintosh-2 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x40b580.mdworker[16984]): Exited with exit code: 1
Jan 31 14:24:43 Macintosh-2 mdworker[16998]: (Error) Import: Importer force killed!
Jan 31 14:24:43 Macintosh-2 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x40b580.mdworker[16998]): Exited with exit code: 1
Anyone have any ideas?
George

Encase anyone is interested I got the original AVI videos and had no problems playing them. The CPU was less than 20% and the daily maintenance cleared out the logs. So I guess it was just a strange conversion problem I got from downloading google videos.
George

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