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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">On a re-transcode, starting from the "26 hour" ASF, both current and older VLC do OK, transcoding properly to a new ASF file, appropriate length reported.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">It looks like something had blown up in the original creation of the mpeg ps file, which was done using VLC -- I ran a DVD-simple, telling VLC to mux the source DVD into an mpeg ps .mpg file. The incoming DVD streams were what one would expect -- mpeg2 video and a52 audio, and the output file was a single 7+ GB .mpg file, also what was expected.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Ahh, well, the fun never stops :)</FONT>
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<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">From: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Mark Moriarty [</FONT><A HREF="mailto:mfmbusiness@earthlink.net"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">mailto:mfmbusiness@earthlink.net</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">] </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Friday, October 28, 2005 6:59 AM</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">To: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">'vlc-devel@videolan.org'</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">ASF Header Messed Up?</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Hi --</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I downloaded the nightly build last night, tried a transcode of a source MPEG2/a52/mpeg ps file to ASF format, 3Mbps DIV3, 192K mps.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The output file is munged up. It's reporting 26 hour+ duration. This is showing in VLC, WMP, and Nero -- any client trying to play it. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The actual underlying transcode is OK, clean audio/video, but the time inifo is broken, which then makes it impossible to burn through Nero -- it gags, since it uses the ASF-reported 26 hour duration. (it Churns on the file, decides that since it is claiming > 26 hours long it will take this massive amount of space to recode)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">(ASF had been pretty solid as of a couple of weeks ago -- an Oct 7 nightly seemed fine. I don't know where things have changed -- whether it's something in the reading-the-mpeg2-file, or something in the transcoding-and-writing-the-ASF-file. I know there's been a contrib update, and have seen a few posts which sound like they've twiddled certain header codes)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Thanks.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Mark</FONT>
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