problem with mpeg during time

[ioda100]

Hi,

I use VLC to watch an mpeg file beeing recorded by a card which encode in real time TV in Mpeg2 (Hauppauge PVR-150).

With version 0.8.5 of VLC, the complete time of the file is updated every second but this is not real second, 1 second for vlc seems to be +/-2 seconds of real time. (it's the same when i watch a dvd, it's not real seconds))

With version 0.8.6 of VLC 1 second for VLC seems to be a real second but the complete time of the mpeg2 file is not updated anymore. (i have to close vlc and reopen it to have the new lenght.)

Is it possible to do something for this?

ps : it's in PAL (i don't know if it's important)

thx in advance.

[DJ]

This is a known issue with MPEG. There is not good timing information in this format. There are 2 common methods for extrapolating time and neither of them are completely accurate.

[ioda100]

yes but this is strange that it does the same thing for dvd and that all the programm are good for dvd and other mpg stuff.

0.86 seems to have real second but doesn't update the total time of the video
and version 0.85 of vlc have bad seconds but update the total time of the video at any moment.

No way to take the real second of version 0.86 and the update of version 0.86?

thx

[DJ]

This is because the method was changed in 0.8.6 at the request of users. The time in this method is based on the total time when the file is opened.

Last time I looked, the DVD was still MPEG.

[ioda100]

That i say is that : all the other video player have no problem with th "seconds" with dvd or other mpg stuff.
But VLC is the only one i have found that can watch mpeg2 file that is still beeing written (by a PVR system (hauppauge PVR-150 for example)). Is it because of this that vlc has a problem with "seconds" in mpeg?


But is it not possible to keep the system of version 0.86 for the "seconds" but take the system of vlc 0.85 only to display the total duration of the video updated at any moment.

thx