MPEG 2 Renderer Problem [Probably]

[Izikd]

Hi,

I've transcoded some DivX movies to MPEG 2 using TMPGEnc.
When I try to play the MPEG movie using BSplayer or Media Player Classic, they short the movie time length by twice. All the movie appears, and it doesn't play it more faster or slower.

When I try to use Cyberlink's PowerDVD to play the MPEG movie all works fine.

As I understand BSplayer and MPC uses system's default MPEG 2 renderer, and PowerDVD uses it's own Cyberlink's renderer.
Also I have the Premire renderer - MainConcept, and as I know it works fine too.

What can I do to watch movie on "regular" programs like BSplayer and MPC?
Windows shouldn't have it's own MPEG 2 renderer, or I'm worng?

P.S.
I use pretty clean Windows XP, I mean that I've formated some days ago, and I haven't done massive installs/changes of the codecs.

Thanks,
Izikd

[Izikd]

Nobody?

But OK, I think I've solved it.

I opened the DirectShow Filter Manager, scrolled down to "MPEG-2 Splitter", and downgraded it's Merit id to 00200000, so MainConcept's splitter have now a higher priority.

I hope it's the best solution.

Thanks anyway,
Izik.

[madmartian]

I have the same problem and your fix did not work for me. Any other ideas?

[redwudz]

Windows doesn't come with a MPEG-2 codec because of licensing. If you want to play a MPEG 2 video, you need to install one. Power DVD installs a MPEG-2 codec that other programs should be able to use. Or you can install Stinkys MPEG2 Codec. Or use VLC media player which has it's own codecs.

[madmartian]

VLC exhibited the same length error. The difference between how MPC and VLC handled it is MPC would count up in real time and get to the end and continue playing the video even though the counter had stopped while VLC would actually count the seconds more slowly! Both displayed the incorrect length. Oddly when I convert the VOB files to MPG through Womble Video Wizard with direct stream copy, both products then display the correct length.