MPEG-2 Issue

[State Of Mind]

I just encoded DV to MPEG-2 with TMPGEnc Plus and when I try to browse through the video with Media Player Classic, it freezes. Any ideas?

[Tommyknocker]

Media Player has an "attitude" sometimes. Have you tried any other players?

[State Of Mind]

What Third Party player can I install to play MPEG-2 files besides Elecard one?

[Tommyknocker]

PowerDVD and WinDVD.

[State Of Mind]

Well, the thing is...I need some sort of color filter. Because I am only getting so many colors on this video. With another player, I get full color and. With full color, I can't browse with MPC. I can without it. It is weird.

[proxyx99]

... then it must be your video driver. Remove and reinstall video driver, use Power DVD to view it. If file is OK you shoud have no issues. Remember that in some large MPEG 2 files due to the way they are encoded any player will follow its structure (so to speak fast forward the file) when u jump to a new point . It takes some time and looks like PC is frozen. Just wait. Use also previw function in TMPEG. Again, there will be no problem if the file is OK. Depending on the PC speed response time may be longer or shorter. If you can scroll through the whole file in TMPEG you may go ahead and burn it.

[State Of Mind]

My video drivers are fine. I have a P4, 3.0 GHz, 1.0 GB DDR RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB. I installed this 3rd party MPEG-2 player called Elecard MPEG-2 Player" and it played the file and the color was fine. TMPGEnc Plus preview shows the file fine as well. in MEDIA PLAYER CLASSIC, the color amount of reduced when I DON'T have some sort of .ax filter file installed by Elacard. When I do that and have full color, the file is not browsable. With reduced color, it is. There is some sort of technical complication somewhere. I do not want to install WMP9.0 and I have removed all other pre-install media players so I can't use those.

[D_Knife]

You could also try VirtualDub-MPEG2 to check your encodes
Media player classic also "locks" on me for a little bit as Tommyknocker mentioned and since I'm not patient enough to wait I drop into vdub and check from there.
Plus you can do frame by frame scrolling and analysis

[State Of Mind]

I am using VirtualDub-MPEG2 v1.5.9. I fixed the problem. I changed my screen setting from 16-bit to 32-bit. Full color and browsable.

[Gazorgan]

Some players will override your desktop settings and some won't. This is most obvious switching between windowed and full screen. It also has to do with overlay mode, but that's getting pretty technical.

16 bit color is faster, but cuases issue with true colrs that have to be re-rendered.