Video only playing 3 seconds .mpg

[richardos]

Hi everybody hope you can help, i have a .mpg video file containing my 3YO's birthday party, the video file is 2.89GB when i first copied it from my camcorder to my computer it worked fine playing for over 1 hour, but now when i play the video it only plays for 2 seconds, i have tried everything i can think off to try and repair it i have used numerous video repair softwear from download.com but nothing works all the softwear i have used says there is nothing wrong witht the video file. when i play the file in windows media player the status bar moves accross the bottom like normal it dosent stop it plays it like it is just a 2 second video. any ideas????

thanks for your help guys

[hech54]

Open the video n GSpot and post a screenshot.

[yoda313]

Try playing it in vlc or mpchc instead. If it doesn't play in those programs the file might be corrupted somehow.

[richardos]

here is a screen shot off Gspot

[lowellriggsiam]

The last time I saw something like this happen the file was written onto a bad sector on the Hard Drive. Have you been able to play it with another video player such as VLC? According to Gspot it is on drive D, can you drag it onto drive C?

[richardos]

Tried VLC but it just dose the same thing plays for 2 seconds and then stops i have tried copying to over the the C drive and i tried copying it over to USB and trying it on another computer, but still no luck

[PuzZLeR]

Try changing the file extension to .avi

[lowellriggsiam]

Under container it says that you have an 2.89 gb file, but 2.88gb of it is rubbish. I am going to lean twords corrupted file. Unless other suggestions abound you might try replacing the header from a working mpg file you created using the same method. This gets tricky, but you'd have to open the file using a hex editor and try comparing the results to that of the one that is working.

[jagabo]

First, the file is an AVI file, not an MPG file. It must have been renamed with the wrong extension at some point. GSpot does have problems with large files sizes (the "unneeded bytes" problem) but I don't think it starts until you get over 4GB. The file contains uncompressed YUY2 video according to the fourcc. With a ~3 GB file size and 640x480 frames it should contain about 5000 frames (about 6 minutes at the indicated 15 fps). I would try opening it with VirtualDub and see if that shows more than 2 seconds. It might be possible to patch the header to adjust the frame count. That doesn't necessarily mean the rest of the file will contain valid, uncorrupted data.