Time duration off

[LEGAL]

When playing a video on windows media player I get a correct play time, however, with VLC it always shows less time. What gives?

[The DJ]

VLC isn't WiMP

(if you were expecting a longer and more detailed answer, then I reply you by saying that i would have appreciated a longer and more detailed question).

[LEGAL]

Okay I will.

On every player, usually on the bottom right, there is a time that gives you the total run time of the video file. When I play the video file on WMP I'll get, lets say, 1:21:00, (1 hour 20 minutes). When I play the same file in VLC it shows a total length of 1:04:20. This is an actual example and yes the original file is 1:21:00. Why is there over a 16 minute discrepancy? I realize VLC is not WiMP but 1 hour 20 minutes is 1 hour 20 minutes.

Craig

[dionoea]

I guess that The DJ would have liked info about the encapsulation format, codecs, input source...

[Quaddo]

I'm currently having the same problem.....

The duration of, for example, a 22mins51secs-mpeg2-movie-clip is displayed as 3mins59secs in VLC (v0.8.4a).
The movie-speed is correct, but the time counts 1 second at a rate of about 1/5 of what it should....

Screenshots:
VLC: http://img274.imageshack.us/img274/5813 ... m599ih.jpg
Media Player Classic: http://img274.imageshack.us/img274/8374 ... m512cs.jpg

AVI's, MPEG1's, WMV's etc. are all working OK

Would appreciate any tips/clues/hints.......

My low-end-specs:
Win98SE
P3 700 MHz 256MB
Matrox G200 32MB
DirectX 9c

[DJ]

I think everyone is missing the point or question.

Now I can only speak for me. But it seems this only happens with MPEG files. It has been noted that MPEG does not have good time criteria, however other players and or hardware have overcome the problem.

Other file types do not seem to display the problem or not at least that I have encountered. MPEG-TS seems to be the worst offender. But I also have run across this in some MPEG-2 video clips having a .mpeg or .mpg extension.

Providing information about a problem with out the specifics of the format and container leaves one with a huge???

[JimmyTheSaint]

mpg files I create with MyTheatre play back in VLC with the time code lagging about 25%. vob files I extract from DVD play back with the time code lagging by about 80% .