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After upgrading from vlc 9.8 to the lastest vlc it seems that mpeg2 recordings of a hauppauge 150 tvcard no longer play.

I got some file information from a windows media player codec pack whitch does seem to play it.
Theres a 11meg sample here https://cid-c96ead1f17b37c22.office.liv ... 131412.mpg
Could someone please fix this.

General
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 11.1 MiB
Duration : 16s 360ms
Overall bit rate : 5 697 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12
Duration : 16s 360ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 5 391 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 8 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.520
Stream size : 10.5 MiB (95%)

Audio
ID : 192 (0xC0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Duration : 16s 200ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Video delay : -204ms
Stream size : 380 KiB (3%)

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback and then paste the full resulting log here.

File is damaged/corrupted. Even mencoder cannot fix it.

I tested the posted sample of MPEG-2 video. VLC has problem to play it correctly. Mplayer (UMPlayer) or MPC Homecinema (using own internal filters) can play it very well.
I was just curious, because it is the same like with my MPEG-1 (MPEG-PS) files. The source video is O.K., but a part cutted out of it (Avidemux 2.6) is a problem for VLC to play, whereas it can be played in MPlayer or MPCH.

File is damaged/corrupted. Even mencoder cannot fix it.

Yep but on Windows VLC is the only player not able to play this file, even MPlayer can play it.

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback and then paste the full resulting log here.

When doing that vlc crashes, but I did manage to get some erros before it crashes.

repeats these heaps of times
"main warning clock gap,unexpected stream discontinuity"
"main warning feeding synchro with a new reference point trying to recover from clock gap"

File is damaged/corrupted. Even mencoder cannot fix it.

its possible, i have 100's of theses files from 2 hauppauge tv cards and vlc plays none of them, i have a feeling hauppauge may be outputing non standard mpeg2 files