MPG Movie is longer than time displayed ?

[lemonkey]

Hello,

I am playing some VCD movies which I have had to copy to my harddrive for playing, but I am encountering a problem.

When I play the movie in Windows Media Player or Power DVD it says the film is only 1hour or something like that long, when it really is 90mins long.

When it gets to the 1hour or supposed end of movie it keeps playing, but I cannot control mpeg till the ent of the movie (FFW, REW, etc).

When I pause the movie after the 1 hour mark and play it again it resets the movie to the 1 hour and starts playing from there again.

Could somebody please help,

Thanks,

Le Monkey

[soneman]

This happens a lot to me on my PC. I think its a windows media player problem. I had VCD MPEG movies created by TMPGEnc and the movie was supposed to be like 55 minutes and windows media player recognised it as a 49 minute video!

It doesn't really effect the playback of the MPEG file when burnt onto a VCD. At least it doesn't for me anyway. Sorry for the late reply! LOL!!

[skru_fase]

I am having a similar problem... For no apparent reason, all of a sudden my MPEG files only play a small portion of the video before they 'black out'. During the black-out, the audio continues as normal, and every once and a while I will get a frame of video as it should be, but the video never plays out in full.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled all codecs and tried about 4 different media players, all with no results. GSpot says I have the needed codecs and that they are working properly, but even it can't play the video properly. According to GSpot, the codec used for these files is Mpeg-1

I'm at a loss of what to do... has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions on how to fix this???