Weird timer reading when capturing VHS video with Hauppage PVR

[king joey]

Hello, all. First time poster, and very new to VHS capture. I'm afraid this is a highly repetitive question, but I'm not recognizing any of the other thread discussions being about the issue I think I'm having.

I recorded a football game on VHS years ago (2008; yes, I was practically a Luddite, using VHS in 2008). It is one of many games I recorded on VHS dating back to the early '80s. I captured it on my computer with a Hauppage PVR, but when I play back the .ts file, the time counter reads that the recording is over 17 hours long (the game is really only about 3:50). The video seems intact, and the whole game was captured, and it plays back in real time. But for some reason, if I try to use the Window Media Player slider to scroll through the video, the counter shows that 17+hour time stamp. I actually watched from the beginning to a certain point in the game, and the playtime counter read about 4 minutes. Then I went back and used the slider to move forward from the beginning to that same point in the game, and the play time counter read over 8 minutes.

The timer doesn't really affect my playback, and all I really care about is preserving the images. But I am worried that a timer issue like this may be a symptom of a bigger problem down the road. Since I have about 4 boxes of videos to transfer, I'd rather find out sooner than later.

Some other details:

I'm using a Surface Pro 4, 16g RAM, i7 core, 1TB hard drive
The Hauppage PVR is at least 5 or 6 years old, and has a #49001 LF rev2 on the sticker on the bottom
I captured another recording that was only 50 minutes long, and it does not have the same issue. Also, the other video opens naturally in the Windows 10 Movies & TV app, but the game I captured will not open in that app, only in Windows Media Player or VLC (both of which have the same timer issue). The Movies & TV app gives me an error message,

"Can't Play

Sorry, we're not sure what happened. Please try again later.

0xc00d36e6"

The VCR is a Magnavox DVD Recorder/VCR ZV427MG9

Again, sorry if this has been answered 1,000+ times. But if there's a term for this that I'm recognizing, I'd appreciate some guidance. If this is not something worth worrying about it, then please let me know so I can continue with my captures and forget about it. But whatever the case, thanks for any help/advice/guidance you can give.

[JoeS99]

Try running the TS file through tsMuxer. I have a PVR2 and sometimes I get indications that the file is many hours long when it is really an hour. Not sure what causes this but you just have find the right tools to deal with it.
I use TSDoctor and VideoReDo. Sometimes VideoReDo produces a file with that problem.

[king joey]

Thanks for the advice! I'll look into it!