How is it that AutoGK would produce 2 hours of video from one-hour MPEG?

[jmkeuning]

I recorded to episodes with my capture card. I used MPEG-VCR to cut out othe commercials and then split the episdes. The resulting MPEGs were about 53 minutes and named Video1 and Video2.

When I converted with AutoGK, Video2 was fine, but Video1 contained both episodes! I know, this is totally wacky, but I checked the logs and AutoGK used Video1 MPEG as the source, when I play back Video1 MPEG it plays only the 53 minutes, but when I convert to AVI I get approx two hours of video!

I thought it was strange to I re-encoded Video1 with AutoGK and got the same result.

The only thing I can think is that the MPEG stores some sort of hidden data... odd, I know, but what else?

[gadgetguy]

Rename Video2 to Videob and try again. I suspect it reads the filenames as sequential sections of the same video and loads them both.

[jmkeuning]

Ahhh. Interesting! I will let it run tonight and check in tomorrow!

EDIT: I did not include this in the original post, but this really makes sense: The 2 hour AVI is the content of the two MPEGs back to back, with the commericals taken out and everything. I did not understand how this could be and I did not know how to explain it because it seemed so odd to me. Your explanation is right in line with this behavior.