I have been a WinDVD 4 user for 8 years now. With the transition to Digitial TV on Sept 1st, WinDVD 4 can no longer play the files I record, so I have been trying everything and anything out there. The key feature of WinDVD 4 I use is Time Stretch.
After searching and reading this forum, I learned that Video Enhancements are only available after disabling Hardware Acceleration. Once I did that (when no videos where playing), Time Stretch became available for commercial DVDs, or DVD ripped directories. However, it is not enabled for recorded video files - either the "old" MPEG2 files created by a Hauppauge PVR 250 card, or the "new" MPEG2 files that are created by a Hauppauge 950Q USB stick. The old MPEG2 files used to play fine with WinDVD4 and time stretch. On WinDVD 2010 Pro (and even the newest WinDVD 11 Pro Trial I downloaded), Time Stretch is disabled. It is also disabled for any of the new MPEG2 files.
I noted from the Info screen the following on WinDVD 11 Pro Trial:
Name: DVD Rip folder
Title: ... seems not to matter
Chapter ... seems not to matter
Primary Video: Interlaced MPEG2 12 Mbps (or just "MPEG2" 10 - 12 Mbps)
Secondary Video: N/A
Primary Audio: Dolby Digital (AC3) 448 Kbps
Secondary Auto: N/A
Name: Animal Mechanicals clip from CBC Digital broadcast
Title: Title 1
Chapter: 001/001
Primary Video: Interlaced MPEG2 15 Mbps
Secondary Video: N/A
Primary Audio: Dolby Digital (AC3) 384 Kbps
Secondary Audio: N/A
The DVD Rip plays fine with Time Stretch ... the video file does not. I tried naming the video file to different extentions: ".MPG", ".MP2", ".VOB" - but it did not seem to make any difference. I also tried to mock-up a DVD Rip folder, but that just crashes WinDVD 11 Pro Trial ... not that I really know *how* to do the mock up properly.
All-in-all very frustrating. Is there anything I can do to get these video files to play with Time Stretch?
Thanks,
Ian.
Why doesn't Time Stretch work will all MPEG2 video files?
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