Problem with recoreded mpeg

[ViDi0T]

Hi,

I recently installed a PVR250 in my system and things are going better than with my last (Aver) TV card. I have been trying Sage TV Recorder and it was working ok.

The other night i recorded 3 shows from different channels back to back. The first and last show recored fine. The second show appeared to record OK, the file size was correct for the 60 minute show, however when i add the mpeg to Ulead Movie Factory 2, it reports it as 25 mins, and when i playback the dvd on the standalone, when it gets to the 25 min mark, the video just stops but the counter keeps going. I tried to demux/remux the A/V and i tried various mpeg repair tools as well as dvd authoring software and always the same results. When i play the mpeg in PowerDVD, the whole show plays but the time is all messed up.

Do you think this is an isolated incident or has anyone seen this before and do you know a way to fix this?

I have the latest drivers for the card, no one was using the PC during the recording process.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers!

[mls]

I had a similar problem once when I tried a somewhat non-standard custom recording quality. I had read somewhere once that sometimes the timing data in the first few frames is corrupted and trimming off those first few seconds with VideoReDo straightens it out.

It worked for me on that one file of mine. Might work for you also, not sure.

What recording quality setting were you using?

[ViDi0T]

Thanks for your reply.

I was using DVD Extra Long Play standard format. I used the same format in the 1st and 3rd recordings that worked ok.

VideoReDo did fix the problem. Thanks for that tip.

Now if i could just figure out how to fine tune the channels when using Sage i will be happy, but i'll start another thread on that cause I've done everything i've read on this formum and nothing works :(


Thanks