No scrolling after edit with MPEG Video Wizard

[rockethobbit]

I am using MPEG Video Wizard to do the editing. From the looks of it, it is stream copying the original footage so I have zero loss of quality. It works well.

I am saving using the automatic setting.

The video's play ok if you just open them from the beginning. (tested up to 3 mins) (Also can scroll no problem within MPEG Video Wizard)

The problem I have, is that the exported footage does not play properly outside the program. If I try to scroll through the footage using various players (wmp, vlc, divx, powerdvd) the player will not show the footage, and it most cases it "plays" the footage (counter runs) but no video is actually showing in the player then it resets back to the beginning.

The original footage plays great in all the players....

What am I doing wrong?

[guns1inger]

Don't know. In over 12 months of using the product I have never had this problem.

First thing I would do is g-spot the before and after files and compare the content.

Does this happen with all mpeg footage, or just from some sources ?

[rockethobbit]

All other media formats work even MPEG. THe original mpeg scrolls/ques fine, only the exported footage from Video Wizard does not scroll, it plays fine, but if you need to move forward it does not work.

I used gspot to compare the data and they look the same. Although that is coming from a newb to gspot.

I really would like to understand why the scroll/que does not function in players, but I can scroll fine in editors.

[rockethobbit]

I did some tests, and everything up to 30 seconds scrolls ok. If you go past 30 seconds then the problem occurs.

I have made a 60 second clip available for download if anyone wants to see what I am talking about. It's a 75mb file that will probably take you about 5 mins to download.

http://www.alcorunited.org/media/TestExport60.mpg

I just updated to a newer version of the program, 7/07 and it still does not work.

[Urvieh]

I can see the problem in VLC (it stops after ten seconds, i.e. the progress indicator keeps running, but the video is visibly broken), but not so in Nero ShowTime (of Nero v7). MPEG Validator says there are some problems (bitrate too high, wrong mux rate). Try demuxing with PVA Strumento (which, btw, does not report any problems) and re-muxing with Imago or Womble's built-in multiplexer.

I've tested demuxing and remuxing myself using PVAStrumento and the multiplexer of Womble MPEG Wizard DVD, and the VLC problem is gone.

[rockethobbit]

Thanks for the reply. So you are asking me to separate the video and audio into separate files, then put them back together again.

What I don't understand is that the original files which are the same format and much larger are not have this problem. I really would like to just be able to edit them in womble and have them come out "scrollable" after the export. I have a bunch of editing to do. 250gb worth of data.

[rockethobbit]

I can mux them using MPEG Video Wizard. Does anyone know of a good utility that can batch demux and mux the videos? I tried PVAStrumento, but it will not work properly on the bitrate that these files were encoded at.

Thanks.

[Urvieh]

Which format do you set for the export in Womble? DVD?

[rockethobbit]

Automatic. It streams (copies) the files and does not re-encode them.

[Urvieh]

I've made the experience that "DVD" does not produce mux errors as often as the automatic mode does.

Edit: You might also want to try elementary streams and mux afterwards.