Visual Studio not reading all of MPEG file

[S90254]

Nature of the problem: Visual Studio will not read all of large MPEG2 file.
VS 9 will import the file to the library but will only play about 2.5 minutes javascript:emoticon(':evil:')
Evil or Very Madof the over 3 hour file.

Properties of your source files: 12.7 GB MPEG2 Sourced from Hauppauge PVR-150 using Beyond TV 4

What devices are involved and their mode of connection: Hauppague PVR-150

Project Settings: N/A

Output format (file, DVD, VCD, SVCD): N/A

PAL or NTSC: NTSC

Error Codes (if any): None


System information Win XP Pro SP2, Intel 2.8 GHz, 1 Meg DDR 2700 RAM,
80 Gig Western Digital Drive, 300 Gig Seagate Drive

Note: Other editing programs like Mpeg Video Wizard will not read the complete file.

[Ken Berry]

Will it play in full in any player program e.g. PowerDVD or WinDVD?

And just as a matter of curiosity, if you live in California, how come you have a PAL file if it was captured locally?

[S90254]

Will it play in full in any player program e.g. PowerDVD or WinDVD?

And just as a matter of curiosity, if you live in California, how come you have a PAL file if it was captured locally?

Yes, it will play in Nero Showtime player.

And the file is NTSC. I corrected the original post.

[DVDDoug]

Most likely, your MPEG is corrupted.

Your computer is fast enough... Were you running any other programs during capture? If you're multitasking, you can get dropped frames or corruption.

The Hauppauge card could be defective.

There could also be a compatibility issue between Beyond TV and your capture card. (It is supposed to work with your card). Try the WinTV 2000 software that came with the Hauppauge card.

I've never had a problem with unedited files captured with my PVR-250 and Hauppauge's capture software. As long as I edit them with Womble, they stay uncorrupted. (I have ended-up with corrupted MPEGs after editing them with Video Studio.)

[S90254]

I got a trial for a program called VideoReDo Plus http://www.videoredo.com/
They have a tool called QuickStream Fix which, from what I understand, reconfigures the time stamps. That worked well and I was able to output the project to DVD. It also has a nifty tool called Ad-Detective that allows you to pluck out ads.

Unfortunately, the output from VideoReDo could not be read by Video Studio 9. I got the error: File format mismatch 16803:1:2 .

Lastly, for all the Womble fans, is there an equivalent tool in Womble to VideoReDo's QuickStream Fix or Ad-Detective?

[Ken Berry]

Strange. That's the first time I have heard of ReDo leading to that error once a file was back in VS. (A lot of people on this forum have used ReDo to correct video/audio out-of-sync problems). Can you tell us exactly what the properties of the file were before and after ReDo. And also your work flow. For instance, if you put your clip through ReDo and changed some of its fundamental settings, then as it emerged, it was no longer the same file that went in. It would also no longer be the same file as far as VS is concerned.

If you simply opened your project in VS, then the program naturally looks for all the files included in the project .VSP file. It would find one with exactly the same name, but not meeting the original information relating to that file. IIRC, it then displays a file format mismatch error. If this is what happened, then you have to delete the original file from your project (probably showing as blank, black and white rectangles in the timeline). That then subtracts the original info from the VSP file. Then you insert the 'new' ReDone file.

Let us know if that works.

[S90254]

I did the QuickFix in VideoReDo, I manually removed the ads and then I joined it to another clip.

There is no VS project because I could'nt get VS to load the file to the Library for use in a project. I got the mismatch error before I could get it in VS.

[Ken Berry]

I don't know which version of ReDo you have, and I have only a quite old version. But in ReDo,can you Open the file you fixed, and then find the equivalent of Tools > Show Video Program Information, and tell us what the properties are.

[S90254]

Here is the data on the File from ReDo:

Video Stream

File Type: Program Stream Encoding: MPEG 2
Dimensions: 720X480 Stream ID: xE0
Display Size: 720X480 Aspect Ratio: 4/3
Frame Rate: 29.97 FPS Bit Rate: 7.000 Mbps
VBV_Buffer: 224 KB Profile: Main/Main
Progressive: Progressive or Int Chroma: 4:2:0

Audio Stream
Stream ID: xC0 MPEG Layer: Layer 2
Bit Rate: 224 Kbps Sampling Rate: 48000 Hz

[S90254]

It looks like I have now resolved the issue.

I was trying to read the file in Video Studio accross my network. I transfered the file to the local computer and then it was readable.

I had been able to acquire other files over the network but not this one.

Go figure