| 09 Nov 2003 11:06 pm |
PCGUY112887 Guest | I have a few videos that are around 30min long. Anyways, they are in the MPEG (that’s all it says) format. When I try to play them, it only plays around 45 seconds of the video, the the picture stops but the sound keeps going. I thought they were corrupt, but my other PC plays them fine. I have re-installed Windows Media player 9, and no help. When I burn them to a VCD, it does the same thing. I can re-encode them useing some video editing software, but for some reason it takes FOREVER (like a day or 2 for 30min of video)
Any fix? Please
PS, none of my other videos do this, even in the same codec.
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| 09 Nov 2003 11:23 pm |
I have a silly rank Rep: 43  Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 1,275 | They bugged ? Try checking them with AVImedic:
http://www.moviecodec.com/download/tools.shtml
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| 10 Nov 2003 05:21 pm |
Technical_Sp. Guest | PCGUY112887 can u give us more information like
size of the file , and what player u use to play the video
in my view ...you try to play large frame size file like 800x600 , or maybe your videos are in MPEG2 format , in this case try to use 'Elecard Mpeg2 Player'
if your videos bigger than 352x288 it won’t be played well if you extract it to VCD..so if its MPEG2 u need to make SVCD becuase the MPEG2 video is bigger by video frame size and also by file size...
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| 10 Nov 2003 05:36 pm |
PCGUY112887 Guest | I tryed the AVI fix, it says no problems. There are mutipal files, ranging from 100-175MB. Any player I use (Win Media 9, Quicktime, DivX, Winamp) and they all do it. I know if I can get the file fixed, it will work fine on VCD, so don’t worry about that.
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| 10 Nov 2003 06:03 pm |
Technical_Sp. Guest | ok then try to encoding the video, make sure videos aren’t corrupted (i mean that videos been capturing well)
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| 26 Jan 2004 05:07 am |
AirTime Guest | Same problem here!
with some videos over an hour wmp only shows a playing time of some 5-6 minutes.
when clicking at 3 minutes I’m taken to minute 30, or whatever is about half the movie.
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| 02 May 2004 03:43 pm |
Cdsmith Guest | I have the same problem. It is not a file problem or an encoding problem because the file plays perfectly on my wife’s computer. a 15 min file only plays the first 20 sec. I have about 20 files this happens on. My thought is that it is someplace in the registry as ALL players do the same on these files
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| 03 May 2004 10:34 pm |
dikzim Guest | I have alot of mpegs that do the same thing...i tried reinstalling a fresh copy of win xp and the files worked for a while but then reverted back to the same problem for what seems like no reason. the problem happens with windows media player, light alloy, and winamp, however, when i play the problematic files in winDVD, it still reads the file as a fraction of the full time of the video but winDVD slows down each second for some reason in order to play the entire file. i have no idea what’s going on. but i do agree it is a discrepancy in the registry rather than the file itself.
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| 04 May 2004 12:24 pm |
dikzim Guest | the elecard mpeg2 player works for all the bad files as well as any other mpg file...it’s probably the best bet at this point. it reads and plays all the files as their actual length.
http://www.elecard.com/download/
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| 10 May 2004 12:45 am |
freddy_forest Guest | I had the same problem. Interestingly, when I installed elecard, media player and all my other players started playing with the correct time
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| 27 May 2004 02:19 pm |
Malek Guest | I can’t believe it! I typed in something like “only play 2 seconds of video” and I got a link to this board and whatd’ya know, the expertise in this forum is off the wall!
I too had EXACTLY the same problem. I’d download a file of 400mb which would be, I dunno 20 mins long and it would play about 20 seconds of it.
I downloaded the Avi medic and like others, it said nothing was wrong with the files.
So I resorted to the elecard player and downloaded the full package I think and it worked in the Elecard player, woo hoo!
I noticed it came with a decoder... and since I was used to WMP9 I gave it a whirl... oh my they all work now!
Thank you very much for everyone who helped contribute on this board, bravo!
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| 24 Sep 2004 07:33 pm |
Danki69 Guest | haha, I agree.. found this forum in a jiffy and got all the help I needed! Thanks a lot guys.
It would be nice to find ou exactly where and what is changing teh registry to make the files start doing that though.
Either way, thanks again guys and good input!
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| 01 Oct 2004 05:42 pm |
jimslade Guest | thanks so much. i have this same problem. mine are on cd rom so i know the files themselves aren’t changing. it must be somthing in the resistry. ill try this video player and see if that works. if anyone finds a reason for this problem, id love to hear it.
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| 06 Dec 2006 02:11 am |
NeutralAngel Guest | Same problem, same solution, two years after the last post here! Thanks!
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| 11 Dec 2006 10:59 pm |
Larry889 Guest | my sister lost a charished video filmed from her camera in Mpeg. She erased the camera card in error. A friend was able to retrieve all the card but the video she wanted shows 34 seconds, but only plays 4 seconds than stops.
I have tried playing around on download.com with files to resolve, tried burning the file with nero, but nothing reads past 4 seconds.
Any suggestions that may retrieve the video. If it states 34 seconds, is it possible the data is there?
Any help would be appreciated.
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| 23 Dec 2006 04:56 pm |
antman Guest | i’m having the same issue. videos that worked for years suddenly only play about a minute then end (the progress bar ends too) but the sound is still playing. so what is the problem? it does it when i play the same video that i burned to disk (DVD). do i have to buy this elecard S/W ? and which one do you download? there are so many packages on the elecard site. thanks.
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| 23 Feb 2007 12:21 am |
VCDmonger Guest | I’ve been having this same problem for probably two years now. I’ve searched many times before but never found any real results. Just like someone else who posted, even after re-installing Windows XP the correct play time only displayed for a short time before reverting to this weird behavior.
I finally found this thread today, and I am extremely happy to say that the Elecard Player solved my problem! Thanks so much to dikzim for this solution!
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| 03 Feb 2008 12:04 am |
JoEbY Guest | I have the same problem with some MPEG files in Windows Media Player but they play just fine with QuickTime. Anyone else try QuickTime for their bad ones?
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