Timecode issue with rendering in MPEG-2

[BadgerKing]

I encoded my amv as an mpeg-2 with TMPGEnc and directly from Premiere Pro (just to check to see if it was an issue with only TMPGEnc). Here's the problem I'm seeing: If I play the video from the beginning in WMP, the timecode is fine - but if I skip ahead to a certain time, it'll be off by a certain amount of seconds. For example, there's a certain part that happens at 1:53 if started regularly from the beginning and watched the entire way up to that point, but if I start the vid and skip to that point, it'll be nearly 6 seconds off and the timecode will be at 1:59 when it gets to that certain part that is supposed to happen at 1:53. I'm not seeing this when I play it in VLC Player, either, and I didn't see it last year when I encoded my previous amv in mpeg-2.

Any thoughts?

[BadgerKing]

I tried the vid on my work computer and it doesn't have the same problem....now I'm really confused.

[mirkosp]

Well, WMP is generally regarded as a bad player. Check with MPC after installing the CCCP and see what happens there. If you can't reproduce it there, you likely don't have to worry.

[BadgerKing]

I have CCCP installed and the issue will occur with MPC.
I only found out about this issue because the AMV coordinator for the anime con I submitted the AMV to emailed me a couple days ago and said that she was having trouble recognizing the full length of my entry. She was able to do another conversion of it and fix it, but it just got me wondering why it's occurring.

[mirkosp]

Try remuxing in another container and see if it likes it.

[BadgerKing]

Well, it doesn't happen with the uncompressed AVI or as an MPEG-4.

[mirkosp]

They are different encodes altogether, though. I was wondering if the issue was somewhere in the container's data rather than in the video stream itself, hence why trying to remux the same encode to mkv or ts or anything else that would like it would be a way to see if that's true.

[BadgerKing]

They are different encodes altogether, though. I was wondering if the issue was somewhere in the container's data rather than in the video stream itself, hence why trying to remux the same encode to mkv or ts or anything else that would like it would be a way to see if that's true.

Ah, I see. What software would I use for that? I don't believe I've ever remuxed a video before, so I'm not sure if there's any special way of doing that?

[mirkosp]

Mkvmergegui for mkv (it's part of the mkvtoolnix) or tsmuxer for ts.

[BadgerKing]

Alrighty, I'll give that a try and see what happens. Thank you.