Wrong duration when playing back movie files
Board: General
Created:
12-14-2002 07:33 PM
Replies: 31
Latest Reply By: wickedg
| Posted by Travis |
12-14-2002 07:33 PM |
When I play back certin mpeg files they have the wrong
duration on them ie the file may be 100megs but the size of the mpeg
according to the playback program is only saying about 45secs.
I know the movie is bigger because when you get the the end
of the 45 seconds the video stops but the audio continues. Also if
you skip ahead via the scroll bar you can see bits of the movie that
occurs after that initial 45 sec mark. I hope this is clear enough.
Dose any one have any ideas on how to view the whole movie
or to tell the mpeg file that it is longer then 45 seconds long.
I have tried playing it on several different players and
have tried to re-encode the file to somthing else such as avi but no
luck.
Many thanks
Travis
|
| Posted by Angry
fig |
12-14-2002 08:45 PM |
| You may have corrupt files on your hand. Do this to
see if the files make sense, since you claim you can continue
hearing audio. Demux the mpeg file using mpegenc. play the audio and
check wmp for the duration of the audio. play the video and check
again the duration.(takes only a few minutes to do these). That
would be a start. By the way if you have an mpeg file don't expect
the file to be very long just because it is 100 meg. maybe 15 to 20
minutes. besides I thought this forum was for
codecs. |
| Posted by Travis |
12-15-2002 04:30 PM |
Hi
Is there any way to fix the file so that
WMP relises that it is longer.
Travis.
P.S. I posted
here because i thought it might have been a codec
prob. |
| Posted by Angry
fig |
12-15-2002 06:46 PM |
| No there is not. wmp plays what you give them. The
files you have(on second thought) seem to be unfinished dat files
from sites like edonkey. Those are batch files that you received
piece meal from different people. Your audio might be complete and
enough of video to be able to see the beginning of the movie and
short durations from other parts of the movie that was finished
downloading from somebody. I don't think you will ever be able to
get those fixed. You need to download again. |
| Posted by Angry
fig |
12-15-2002 07:23 PM |
P.S.
I will try to make you see it another way.
You are downloading a 700 meg file from some of these sites and
after 1 hour of downloading, say 100 meg if you right click on the
dat file and check for properties you will see that the file has a
size of 700 meg, but you know you only downloaded 100 meg. That is
because that sites system tries to make sure you have enough
diskspace available to finish the file so it reserves 700 meg of
diskspace and if I take this unfinished file, edit and rename it I
will have a file that says size is 700 meg but will only play 100
meg worth of video and if I am lucky finish the audio part of it.
|
| Posted by tobadzistsini |
01-08-2003 08:39 AM |
I am having the same problem with some larger files.
It has something to do with the file being several smaller mpegs
that were joined into one larger file. I having this problem with
files that I have generated myself and merged them together. I am
fairly sure that I have joined them correctly. If anyone has a
solution for this problem, I am all ears.
|
| Posted by Angry
fig |
01-08-2003 10:44 AM |
| Hogwash, if I join two files one 20 seconds and the
other 30 seconds and both are playble and compatible, then after
joining I will have a file that is 50 seconds long. The player will
tell you the length of the movie and does not care if the middle of
the movie is corrupt, blank or unfinished. We are finished with this
problem. |
| Posted by Travis |
01-08-2003 04:48 PM |
A little bit "touchy" aren't we ANGRY FIG.
This is
supsosed to be an opend forum. Not a place where you are told your
problem is "HOGWASH". If you can't be bothered to write hepfull
advice stay the @#$@#$ of your keyboard. |
| Posted by tobadzistsini |
01-08-2003 06:51 PM |
| Hi, I didn't want to start a fight. I am having the
same problem that Travis is having. My operating system is XP with
all updates. I am Media Player 9 for XP and I am running into a lot
of larger files that play the first minute, then the video freezes,
and the audio continues. When I joined my own files I was using both
TMPGEnc and Joiner. My joined files do the same thing as described
above. I am not making this up. I was hoping to find some help here
and not start a flame war. If I find the soulution to this problem,
I will post a reply here. |
| Posted by Travis |
01-08-2003 11:57 PM |
Hi
Give this a go.
Try downloading the
program DVMPEG.
Install it.
Then try playing your video
through Windows Media Player.
I don't know why but this seemed
to fix my problem.
Travis |
| Posted by timere |
03-11-2003 10:37 AM |
| I still have the same problem even thoe i installed
DVmpeg, is there any other fix? |
| Posted by sweetumz |
03-11-2003 05:31 PM |
| i found that some of the mpg files that behaved this
way could be loaded into virtual dub and saved as a new file,
recovering the lost frames. some files couldnt, and im not sure
why |
| Posted by DarthNemesis |
03-11-2003 08:14 PM |
| I've been having the same problem recently. Large
files that had previously played back perfectly are suddenly reduced
to 45 seconds in length, but manually seeking allows you to view
other parts of the file. I'm not sure when exactly it started, but
the latest update to Media Player 9 Series came out at about the
same time... |
| Posted by DarthNemesis |
03-14-2003 12:11 AM |
| It appears to be a problem with the MPEG-2 multiplexer
DirectShow filter... installed a new one and I was able to increase
the file length to 2 minutes. (lol, it's
progress...) |
| Posted by Hoosier Daddy |
03-21-2003 12:13 PM |
| This is a codec problem. I am still researching it. I
am close. It can happen if a file from your codec is missing or
there are some files from a different mpeg codec that jack things
up. I am researching my problem right now and if I can nail down the
specific file or files involved, I will post for
you. |
| Posted by Pedro Sala |
03-27-2003 06:48 PM |
Hi everybody, I had exactly the same problem but
thanks to your clues I managed to solve it:
the culprit was the
mainconcept codec, I simply unregistered it then registered it again
and... bingo!
Try it:
1) click run regsvr32 /u mcdsmpeg.ax
now the filter is unregistered (like unisntalled)
2) click
run regsvr32 mcdsmpeg.ax
now the filter is registered again and
your problems gone.
I hope it works for you as well
|
| Posted by Warren |
03-29-2003 01:08 AM |
| Pedro - I tried your method and it didn't help me...
anyone have any luck? Or any other ideas? It's driving me
nuts! |
| Posted by timere |
03-29-2003 04:42 AM |
| Same for me, can't get it work. |
| Posted by Hoosier Daddy |
03-29-2003 12:06 PM |
| I still am looking for a solution for me also. There
are just so many possibilities because everybody has different
programs with different codecs. Anyone know of a program that
displays all of the codecs installed on your system, what they play,
and what files are associated with them. That could help narrow it
down. |
| Posted by Pedro Sala |
03-29-2003 07:19 PM |
I'm sorry it didn't work for you.
What I can tell
you is you can be sure that the problem is related to a codec
messing around. Don´t lose your time trying to recompress your
clips, they are right.
The tools I used are:
GSpot:
http://www.headbands.com/gspot or this site.
AVIcodec:
http://avicodec.duby.info or this site.
GraphEdit: Don't konow
URL but easy to find.
These tools will tell you what codecs
are used to play your videos. Each codec has a file problably
located in your System32 folder with the extension *.ax
You can
temporarily rename the suspect and try to play back a video to see
what happens.
If you have two codecs trying to load at the same
time to make the same function, disabling one of them will be the
solution.
Good luck. |
| Posted by Rafael S. |
04-07-2003 12:59 AM |
I ran into this very same problem today and found this
message board using google. Luckily, I just figured out what the
problem is.
The first thing was to use Media Player Classic (
http://vobsub.edensrising.com )which is a VERY small and effective
WMP6.4 clone with tons of improvements. It allowed me to see what
codec was being used. And as someone said above, the MainConcept
splitter was there. A quick research in my HD shown that no
mainconcept files were on my WINNT dir/subdir, but instead were in a
dir used by Sound Forge to keep its plugins - it uses the
mainconcept codec pack to open/save MPEG videos, but I don't even
have that funcionality enabled, so it was useless.
Before
attempting to unregister the files I uninstalled Sound Forge to
check if the problem was gone: bingo! Now Media Player Classic
informs me I am using MPEG-I Stream Splitter, which I guess is what
comes with Windows.
Now I must find a way to either install
SoundForge without this codec (which I guess is impossible) or to
fully remove all mainconcept things after installation. I'm not sure
if just unregistering the four .AX files related to it will do the
job in a clean way or will just disable them (I REALLY don't feel
like letting those things in my hard disk after finding out they
were causing my so much trouble).
So... One solution is to
remove the MainConcept codecs... if you don't need them! If you do,
I don't know what to do. |
| Posted by Joe Schmoe |
04-16-2003 02:08 PM |
Hey folks, I've been dealing with this problem for a
while, and got very tired of it...
Well, I decided to just
go start pullin suspect codecs out one at a time, the one that was
causing it for me was mcspmpeg.ax . I'm assuming this is one of the
mainconcept codecs. As soon as I pulled it out, the clips started
playing back normally, with the seek bar moving at normal speed.
Hope this helps some...
Joe Schmoe |
| Posted by Joe Schmoe |
04-16-2003 02:15 PM |
Oh, btw... I did have soundforge installed,
uninstalled it and when that didn't help, that's when i started
poking around pulling suspect codecs.
Joe
Schmoe |
| Posted by Silhouette |
04-20-2003 08:07 AM |
I had the same problem... But after some research etc.
I [luckily] solved it...
The problem is in one of the registered
Mpeg Splitters...
A buggy MPEG splitter is registered in
windows... And if you can unreg/remove it you will see the correct
file duration.. In my case the problem was Cyberlink's Mpeg
splitter...
Try
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/dxman.htm
and
download DXMan... It shows all the registered plugins / filters
etc...
Look for something like MPEG [1/2] Splitter...
AND REMOVE it with the tool... [Before removing note the name
and location of the file to be removed in case...]
Then
hopefully your system will be ok ... will see the correct duration
AND will probably swear at the stupid codec/plugin and its company
;)
Good luck.
NOTE: The problem MAY also arise if
there is more than 1 MPEG splitters are registered... I'm not sure
though...
NOTE2: Currently I have "MPEG-I Stream Splitter"
regged in the system... [quartz.dll]
|
| Posted by brian |
04-23-2003 12:20 AM |
| i've had the same problem then realised after reading
a previous post that i had installed soundforge a few weeks back. So
i unistalled soundforge and everything works fine
now. |
| Posted by adam |
04-25-2003 02:42 AM |
I had the same problem. videos just stopped loading at
the correct length for no reason. anyway. I changed the extension of
a codec called "mcspmpeg.ax" in my "windows/system 32" directory to
.axtemp and my videos work correctly now.
|
| Posted by MadBrody |
05-01-2003 02:55 PM |
Hi folks
As many of you i had the same problem
but now have a kind of solution. I downloaded MPEG Encoder and
transfered the file to another quality mpeg ... and the new created
file worked perfectly |
| Posted by Casten |
05-01-2003 07:53 PM |
| I had the same problem other people are describing,
all long mpegs showed up as only 45 seconds. I uninstalled
SoundForge and things work again. |
| Posted by Samhain |
05-01-2003 10:27 PM |
Silhouette is right. The Mpeg splitters are the key.
I had the same problem than you guys but now it’s fixed.
The fact is you must have only 1 mpeg splitter in your
computer. Preferably the one that comes with quartz.dll
So,
go to this address :
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/dxman.htm
Download the program and install it (very simple to use,
you’ll see), and after that open it. It will show you all the
registered plugins / filters etc that you have in your computer.
You’ll see, some of them have more than one application. Anyway, try
to locate (in the plug-in column) the Mpeg Stream Splitter
corresponding to the quartz.dll filename. This one is the good one,
don’t remove it. Now, browse the entire plug-in column and try to
find other mpeg splitters (I personally had 2 fraggin’ others in my
computer) and remove it using the Remove button of your DXMan
program.
99% sure that you’ll find an Mpeg splitter
corresponding with the MCSPMPEG.AX filename. Destroy it, its
imperative.
IMPORTANT: Like Pedro said, don’t loose your
time trying to recompress your clips, they are
right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
| Posted by MIA |
05-08-2003 04:02 AM |
| The files are technicaly corrupt, usualy it is only
one of the throusands of mpeg blocks that make up the video file.
When the MainConcept splitter sees the error it freaks out and gives
you the wrong video length. You can work arround it by using the
default microsft splitter that does not notice the problems as much,
but the corrupt block is still in the original file. What you should
do is use a program like DVmpeg to demux and remux the mpeg file.
There is no loss in quality by doing this and it will correct the
corrupt blocks so that the MainConcept splitter and others will read
the file correctly. |
| Posted by Dave |
05-09-2003 03:16 PM |
Joe Schmoe was right tried his method worked perfect
Thanks alot saved me alot of wasted hours |
| Posted by wickedg |
05-11-2003 02:51 AM |
| DXMAN is the man. I killed mainconcept and everything
is back to normal. Thanks guys! | |
