MPEG PS files have wrong durations
I have a video file that VLC (2.0.8 on Mac, and 2.1.1 on iPad) thinks is about 15 minutes long.
The video is actually an hour long. VLC actually plays the entire file fine, but things like skipping forward jumps way too far, and of course the time bar is wrong.
Both MPEG Streamclip and Quicktime Player properly report the duration of the video.
The file is about 1.5 gigs, and I tried cutting a piece out with MPEG Streamclip, but then VLC knows the about 10 minute duration properly. It would take forever to upload the 1.5 gig file to you guys.
Is there any other way to provide useful info on this file for this bug?
See also #8180 (closed) #7303 (closed) #10123 (closed)
10/12/2015 sample: http://streams.videolan.org/issues/9412/
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How can I send you an over 1 gig file??
Please do not close this, it's 100% reproducible for me. Are you saying that a sample of VLC while it's simply playing it would be useful?
THAT IS WHAT I ASKED IN THE ORIGINAL BUG REPORT. What information I can provide besides the ~1.5 gig file (since even a much smaller file took VERY long to upload to you guys)... or maybe another server I could use that would be faster to upload to.
Sorry, I don't remember. I think it was simply a date (since it was a file downloaded from my Tivo).
I uploaded it from http://streams.videolan.org/upload, and did fill in this bug # on the form, so I thought that would attach it to this bug. (I used that page to upload since that page gives upload feedback.)
I have seen the issue again sometimes, so I could upload another file if necessary.
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The email update reminded me. This is now probably my #1 (closed) issue with VLC. I seem to routinely (every week or two at least) run into videos with this problem. It obviously interferes with skipping through the show (e.g. skipping commercials, or sometimes just skipping one guest segment on a talk show without using the time bar).
I see it on various shows. Some shows (not just the same exact show) that are a half hour long seem to show as about 5 minutes long. (I have seen this with a sporadic episode of "The Colbert Report", and also with a local tech news show called "Press Here" within the past few days.)
Would a couple of bucks help get this fixed?
http://streams.videolan.org/issues/7303/vlc-time.mpg
Is the same issue too: #7303 (closed)
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Replying to [comment:12 mattack]:
The email update reminded me. This is now probably my #1 (closed) issue with VLC. I seem to routinely (every week or two at least) run into videos with this problem. It obviously interferes with skipping through the show (e.g. skipping commercials, or sometimes just skipping one guest segment on a talk show without using the time bar).
I see it on various shows. Some shows (not just the same exact show) that are a half hour long seem to show as about 5 minutes long. (I have seen this with a sporadic episode of "The Colbert Report", and also with a local tech news show called "Press Here" within the past few days.)
Would a couple of bucks help get this fixed?
So, the best would be to collect samples, that are not too large in size, but can reproduce the issue. In the meantime, you can run VLC with --demux avformat to fix this. You can also test with the --no-ps-trust-timestamps option.
Oh, "that are not too large in size". That's the problem I guess. It's full half or full hour long shows that I see this with.. That are usually 500 megs - 1.5 gigs.
Sorry, last comment -- I mostly run vlc on my iPad.. So I can't run it with "--demux avformat" unless there's some GUI way to permanently turn that on.
