Plz Help

Dave_911 · Post by **Dave_911** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:21 pm

Ok, so i got a friend to rip me some anime to use and he puts the .mpg on disk and gives it to me, now i get home and it says 2 mins long and im like ???
and if i let it play thru it plays seconds 00:00-02:00 but if i click the progress bar to the middle, it plays 15:00-16:00
[15:00 cuz i clicked in the middle and +1:00 because it thinks its in the middle of 2 mins, not 20 mins]
so idk how to fix this problem its a 30 min anime and it says theres 2 mins, all the data is there just none of my programs can recognise that

ive tryed converting to avi with vdub and premeire and that results in only getting 2 mins of footage and when i click the middle it plays 1:00-2:00 and it only has 1st 2 mins of data
Ive tryed converting to avi just by renaming file, and it has no change to the original problem
Ive tryed taking the avi and changing the framerate, but that dosent even work right...
I know theres probly an easy fix to this[or at least hope]
and im gunna feel stupid when someone points that out, but as of right now i cant figure out this thing
Does anyone have any ideas as to what may have went wrong?

bum · Post by **bum** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:16 pm

I've had this problem before and so have alot of other people. Try downloading some random mpeg file of some site or p2p network. Chances are it'l have the same problem. Wait a few days, the problem might misteriosly just go away (im serios, its happened). Or it might not.

Im prety sure that the problem lies with some bug in the mpeg decoder. Try getnig the latest version of media player clasic from here. I've found that it plays mpeg's correctly when other players are having that error. I also remember that the latest version of virtualdub (not vdubmod or some other modification of vdub) opens the mpegs correctly and from thier you can export to avi.

If your gona use footage coded with a loosy codec, you would best use a high quality divx (at least 200MB per epp). Just remember that the footage is gona degrade when you export the amv. How noticably it degrades is another matter. But as allways, its best to simply buy the dvd's and rip them yourself. And finaly, I sujest reading this

Dave_911 · Post by **Dave_911** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:23 pm

yeha ive read that, ill try dling those programs

and about wht u sed about divx i thought premeire didnt like divx or sumthin of that extent..i use premeire 6.5
and i gotta use a lossy codec because i have maybe 2-3 gb of space left untill i get a 200gb

Dave_911 · Post by **Dave_911** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:30 pm

vdub worked, and ill export from there n edit
i tryed vdubmod before n it didnt work but now that i kno it wont work ill stick to vdub, thx for the help