M2V File Is Wrong Length

[NiVZ]

I use SmartRipper 2.41 to get the Video stream and Audio stream from my DVD's and then use TMPGENC to convert the two streams to a VCD compliant .MPG file. (Using HeadAC3che to convert the AC3 audio if needed)

This has worked for many of my DVD's that I wanted backed up to VCD.

However I'm having a problem with one in particular. The audio stream from SmartRipper is fine, but TMPGENC can only see the first 7mins 31secs of the .M2V file.

When I play the .M2V file in Media Player it shows the total time as 7mins 31secs, even though the entire video is there (if you seek to the end you see the credits)

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

NiVZ.

[learner1]

I had similar issue before. I encoded some AVI (2hrs long) into
elementary streams (m2v and wave) using Premiere6.5's built
in encoder. The wave file is of the right duration (2hrs) but
the m2v was reported to be shorter (1hr. 50minutes) by media
player and tmpgenc. When I looked at the content, everything
seems to be there (intro...end credits etc) but it is just shorter as
if the whole thing got speeded up. However I was informed in
the premiere mpeg encoder forum that media player might be
reporting incorrectly and was suggested to imported the m2v
file back into Premiere to check the actual length. I did that
and Premiere reported the original duration of the piece. I then
went ahead and use DVDit to burn the m2v and wave file
onto a DVD+R/W and the DVD played without any problem
(all video and audio line up properly). Therefore it may not
be a real issue.

[NiVZ]

Thanks for the reply, but TMPGEnc definitely can only see the first 7mins 31secs.

I've now got it working by using DVD2AVI and doing a Save Project to get a .d2v file and a .wav file. I've loaded these into TMPGEnc and it's now worked fine.

Thanks,

NiVZ.