Video says its shorter than it really is once started

[AcidBlue]

I'll have a 10 minute clip and it in winamp once I push play it will say its 1 minute (or something like that). This may be a codec problem but perhaps somebody knows the answer here... The file is not bad because I used to watch it without problem. If I scroll half way through the file it will go to the 5 minute mark (but mark 30 seconds according to the player) and will play until it reaches about 5-10 seconds before the clip is over. And then the video will freeze and the audio will keep playing and sometimes the video will try and continue and just get jerky and it all goes to hell =\ This happens with more than one video clip and I believe it to only be mpg files although I may be mistaken. These clips used to work perfectly and just one day they stopped... I have no idea what happened. This has happened before, I reformatted and it was working again, and now its doing it again. It's quite frustrating =\


In Windows Media player it does the exact same thing except it says that its only 1 minute long from the start. In winamp when its stopped it says its 10 minutes long until I push play...

[blackbeartg]

Hey I had the same question as you, and I was going to post a reply asking if you ever figured out the solution to the problem. Well while waiting for my registration I looked around and found some information and fixed it on my computer.

So if you've fixed it yet, that's fine, as for anyone else, here's a solution that worked for me.

search your computer for mcspmpeg.ax
it should be in your windows folder,
rename it to something like mcspmpeg.ax.backup
incase it doesn't work and you need to restore the file.

try viewing your video file now.

[DJ Egg]

Note: That particular DirectShow filter is not a standard Windows decoder.

mcspmpeg.ax = MainConcept MPEG DirectShow decoder/filter

It's installed by any of the following Sony / Sonic Foundry apps:

Sony Pictures Digital software, ACID 3.0 / 4.0, Sound Forge XP Studio 5.0, Sound Forge Studio 6.0, Sound Forge 5.0 / 6.0, VideoFactory 2.0c, Batch Converter 5.0b and Vegas Video 3.0

The other file associated with it is: mcdsmpeg.ax

The recommended method is to try unregistering them both first.

Start > Run
regsvr32 /u mcspmpeg.ax
OK
regsvr32 /u mcdsmpeg.ax
OK

Then it is safe to rename/remove those two files from the %System% folder.

If your Sony / Sonic Foundry products no longer work properly, then I suggest that you move the files into the respective program's folder instead, though you might need to re-register them
(same command as above, except without the "/u", and the full path to the new location of the files must be included in the command line - with "quotes" around the file path if there's any spaces in it)

Either that, or report the problem to Sony / SonicFoundry.
Though I guess that there's also a chance that these ds filters could be installed by one of those dodgy codec packs...

Also note that Windows Media Player is also affected by this dodgy codec (ie. it won't be able to read mpeg's created by 3rd-party software such as VirtualDub or TMPGEnc).

Disabling the filter will make WMP/Winamp use the system codec/filter instead.