MPG file playback problems

[monstaloc]

When I play back some of my .mpg files, the playback is only a few minutes longs (depending on which file) but when I skim thru the playback, (using windows media player or ASF Recorder)I see more footage then if I were to play it straight through. Would it be because the downloads were incomplete and needed be finished off during several downloads (piece by piece) or are these files just corrupt to begin with? I know DIVX-FIX fixes my avi's when this happened. What should I do? Please help.

[KingJohn]

Would it be because the downloads were incomplete and needed be finished off

Yes, the download may not be from start to finish if your getting it from diffrent people.

111100002222222000033333330000

Above shows a download from 3 people, as you can see the "000" has not yet finished downloading from each person, so you may be able to skip past to the next person.

[goomba]

I have the same problem, but is not because of a download problem
The mpeg is all there..in full. To me happened lately and is probably due
to codecs I installed and such. But dunno exactly.

Fact is for example a movie is 1.30 hours, instead the player understand
let's say first 3 mins, then when the jog bar is at the end continues playing..

[pieter145]

Did you solve this problem?
I have the same.
I suspect it has something to do with WMP not knowing the correct duration of the MPG. In Win98 they play fine!

Pieter

[puertorican138]

I'm still using Windows 98 Second Edition!