timecode messed up

[snafubaby]

I used a piece of software called Simple Video Joiner, to join two videos. One video was 3.3gb, at 1 hour plus. The other video was like 26 minutes, and 1gb. After using the joining software, the resulting video says it's 4.6gb, but only 27 minutes long. How do i fix this so it will be the right duration to convert to a DVD? please let me know. thanks!

[guns1inger]

It sounds like it has put the short clip first and screwed the join.

What format is the video (source and result) ? There may be better tools to use.

[snafubaby]

It sounds like it has put the short clip first and screwed the join.

What format is the video (source and result) ? There may be better tools to use.

They both were mpeg2, captured at 5mbps, with an Adstech DVD Xpress unit. They were made to be converted into DVD. I thought my trusty Ulead DVD Movie Factory 3 would fix things. Unfortunately, i think i need to uninstall it and then reinstall it, because whenever i would try to multiplex the videos, the resulting .vobs would come out with a messed up A/V sync.

The strange thing about it is, the video plays ALL the way through, and correctly on the joined video. It plays on any mpeg viewer i have used, but it just says 27 minutes long. I have tried lots of freeware/trialware stuff to get the files to join together in the past week.

By the way, don't think i am cheap. I was going to buy some software online this weekend to do this. The trialware joiners i tried had limitations, and the freeware stuff was giving me all sorts of errors when loading both clips in. Then i found the Simple Video Joiner monday night, and it seemed to work, but now the timecode is screwed. Any ideas?

[guns1inger]

If you can demux the stream then you can use ReStream to re-write the timecodes

[snafubaby]

hi. I used Streamclip by Apple Computer, and it fixed things nicely. Everything is in order, and the video is 1 hr, 56 mins, like it should be. NOW, the problem i am having is in the "DVD Authoring" section. Maybe you could help. Go over there and check out my last mess i need to cleanup. lol

thanks for your suggestion on ReStream, by the way...