mpeg file time error

Franko · Post by **Franko** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:16 am

Greetings, I'm new to the site.

I have a 20 minute mpeg file that only shows up as a 1:20 second file in the VS 9 video editor timeline. It does the same thing in the DVD burner software. Burns a 1:20 s DVD. It did the same thing in VS 7. The mpeg works fine in realplayer and WMP, plays all 20 minutes. I'm trying to convert this one file to a DVD. I've tried creating the file first. It gives a 1:20 s mpeg4. Freaky. Everything else I do in VS with other files works fine. Is the file corrupted? Salvage-able? How?

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:25 am

Franko,
You have to convert the video to Mpeg2 before you can burn it on a conventional DVD disk. Mpeg 4 will not work. Follow the Recommended Procedure in the top sticky post.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:51 pm

Is the file corrupted? Salvage-able? How?

I suspect it is corrupted.

VideoReDo has a tool that is supposed to fix MPEG 'time stamps'. Womble has a similar tool. (Both of these offer 30-day free trials.)

When I tried-out VideoReDo, it didn't fix my corruption problems. I've never tried the "fix" tool in Womble, but using Womble as an editor has prevented any further corruption problems.

Another thing that might work is re-coding the MPEG. You can try using a 3rd-party program like SUPER (FREE!!!) to slightly change the bitrate. Of course re-coding will degrade the video quality, but not as much as converting it to MPEG-4 and back!

Franko · Post by **Franko** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:30 am

Thanks, I was able to burn it fine as a VCD with Nero. VS is getting on my nerves.