Wrong m2v file length with SmartRipper

[kenj]

I have extracted video from the fist chapter of a DVD-9 disc (with SmartRipper), and it's supposed to last 4:04 mn. Then, when I drop the m2v file in Windows Media Player, it says 1:36 mn, so that it plays, and when it arrives at 1:36, the timecode doesn't move anymore (it's at the end), but the file still plays for a total of 4:04 mn.
I get the same result when I try to extract the full movie : lasts 2 hours, but WMP says around 59 minutes.
Has this ever happened to someone ?

[poopyhead]

a lil trick is try changing the file name...( as simple as deleting 1 character) and then try again in mplayer

[kenj]

Thanks for the advice, I just tried it, and even renamed the file to aa.mpg, but it's still not the good length !
Any other advice ?!

[SLK001]

Don't worry about it... The problem ISN'T with SmartRipper, it is with MediaPlayer (it's not reading the header correctly, or the video format header is not a form that MP fully understands - but the program stream is okay, so it plays). If you want to examine the file, try loading it as a media file in a DVD viewer (I use PowerDVD). For me, MediaPlayer will sometimes FREEZE if you let the clip play to the end, so I usually exit before the end of the video.

[icemanhd]

Perhaps this is the same problem I have been having. I have been using DVD2SVCD with CCE 2.5 and Nero to create the SVCD. If I do just one chapter out of a movie it seems to work fine, but if I do more than one, say 4 or 5 when I go play the MPEG-2 file to check it just plays the first chapter and then freezes, Frustrating. I haven't been burning it to cd as the MPEG2 file didn't seem like it was any good but I think I will try it anyway now.

Anyone else ever have/see this problem?

[kenj]

Yes, absolutely right about the WMP problem, I loaded the file with PowerDVD, and there is no problem, I get the correct timing.

Yet, I do have another problem (and I thought it might come from this wrong duration of the file) when I try to import the m2v into DVD Maestro 2.9, I always get this annoying 'parsing error', so that I can never load the video file.
Any hints ?

[SLK001]

I am not sure, but I think that this is related to you only stripping part of the file. If there isn't a proper "ISO end code header" then the program stream was not properly "ended". It may be that DVD Maestro is checking for a proper MPEG program sequence (which includes the end header), but since there isn't one, more data is expected (that isn't there), thus abnormal termination.

I don't have DVD Maestro (wish I did, though ), so I am not really sure about this... good theory, though (don't you think?)!!

[kenj]

Yes, this is a damn good theory, I never thought about it, I may have this problem because the VOB sequence is made of 2 movies (each one approx. 3.5 Gigs), and I only extract 5 chapters out of 10 (first movie). Now what I have to do is get the whole VOB sequence, and then split the m2v file (adding an end sequence) or even better : just add directly an end sequence to my previous m2v file ! Dunno about this, though ...
Are there any nice tools for splitting a m2v file ?

[kenj]

Well, just tried with another DVD, extracted only the first chapter (out of 7), and it works with the Maestro (too bad !). Yet, I think I noticed there were 2 VOB-id's on the first DVD. Is this specific ?

[Troy Lanier]

I am having the same timecode problem - a video that is only ten minutes in length shows as six minutes. While I can see the whole video in WMP, the looping program I have to show it in (Samsung Magic Info Pro) loops at six minutes and does not show the whole movie. So somehow I need to get WMP and Samsung to think that it is actually a ten minute movie. Surely there is a way to make this work?