Problem with SUPER and VLC...

[Jonny-X]

Hi all, new here. Hope you can help, seeing as I don't know any forums specific to SUPER.

I've always used it for converting videos to various formats, as I've found it to be fantastic for freeware (I'm sure plenty will back me up on this...) but there's one problem I've suddenly started having, and was wondering if anyone else has had the same.

Converting to Mpeg 1, blah blah blah, it's finished. Open the converted vid in VLC (which I much prefer over WMP or the suchlike) and the video itself is fine, but the time is messed up.

My 26 minute video, in the bottom left hand corner, only shows as 12 minutes. As I scroll along, it seems to randomly reduce the length of it (at least the number does, the actual video is there), so it says it is only 5 minutes long or so, which I find quite strange. If I open it up in WMP, it says it's a 26 minute video, and so, is correct...

Anyone know how to fix this? More just annoying than anything else...

[gapu]

it's because super encodes it's videos with variable bitrate and it seems like vlc is not able to cope with calculating the correct lenght of the vid...

its the same here, but my media classic player can cope with it very well... i recommend you the k-lite codec pack anyway.. pretty good!

[redwudz]

I doubt that SUPER encodes variable bitrate MPEG-1. Your problem may be with your source file. If it contained VBR audio, that might cause problems like you describe. Does it do this with all format conversions to MPEG-1?

And I would NOT recommend installing any codec packs. If you do a search for 'codec packs' on our site, you will see many problems where they have damaged installed codecs and messed up the entire computer. A really bad idea, IMO. Besides that VLC uses it's own codecs, so it doesn't need any installed.

You might uninstall VLC and reinstall it. Upgrade to the latest version if you don't have it. Unless I missed something, I haven't seen it do what you describe unless the video itself was messed up. Some source formats like RMVB, WMV and others use variable video and audio bitrates that can cause problems with most MPEG encoders.

There may be a cure for your problem in the VLC settings, but there are so many, that I wouldn't know where to start. Uninstalling and reinstalling may help, though.

And welcome to our forums.