mpg video problems

Ever have a mpg movie that is too short in time, like the whole movie was compressed into thirty second, but the actual file should be like 5 minutes long.

If I fast forward or rewind the file a couple of second, the movie starts at a different spot... the whole movie is there, all 5 minutes of it, but the file only plays 30 seconds at a time...????

It's freaking me out and is hard to explain.

Basically, the movie is there, but I can't see all of it because the file is compressed or corrupted somehow into "thinking" it is 30 seconds long when it is actually not? Get it?

Please help.

 

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This does sound rather confusing.
So since I’m the first here, what are you using to open/watch the clip? Have you tried any other programs? What is the clips source? Is it something you've downloaded or something you've made?

It sounds like the codecs your player is using, don’t support the compression rate of the mpg video you're trying to watch, so an update and a fresh player might be in order.

 

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you need to remux the file, search the web for a remux/demux tool

 

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If it is a Divx file, try Divx fix .

 

TMPGenc can demux/remux (it just reencodes the file hope full correcting the headers)
videofixer can hand avi file again it reencodes the headers and such(usefull for watching partially DL avi)