Hi all,
I have an mpg file that supposed to be about 5 minutes long, but only shows 48 seconds when playing it. The remaining "hidden" portion of the video will sometimes display if I scrub or pause the video.
Is there a way to get this lost portion back, maybe by decompressing the video (just guessing there) or some other trick?
Thanks!
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try repairing the video. look in the tools section for some programs like mpegrepair to use.
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Mpegrepair doesn't seem to work with .mpg files directly, just hdtv streams. The only tool I found in the repair section was MPEG Corrector, but it only partially recovered the file.
What about decompressing the mpg? Is that a possibility? -
Remember to try them on a copy of the file...Some changes could be for the worse.
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Last night I was messing around in VirtualDub on another project, when I noticed for the first time that it can work with MPGs (I had thought it only worked with AVI files).
I opened the mpg file and did a simple save as avi, which created a 3.5 GB avi with all the content restored. I then comprssed it with xvid and viola! fixed video!
I'm kicking myself for not checking VirtualDub first. Srsly, is there anything it CAN'T do? I definately need to explore it more so I'll know it's capabilities. -
VirtualDubMod can work with MPEG files. I don't know about true VirtualDub being able to do this.
That's a pretty ugly "fix" to do 2 format conversions, but if that works for you and you're OK with it, so be it. -
The newest versions (1.7.7 - 1.8.0) of VD can accept MPEG files after a MPEG plug-in is added. I've used VD for years and I still don't know all it can do.
But I would agree that the less conversions you do, the less the quality will suffer.
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yeah, it was good enough. Actually, it came out looking as good as I could expect, considering the so-so quality of the original mpg.
Anyway, thanks everyone for all the suggestions. Videohelp has to be one of the best forums around, imo.
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