Mpg playback
 

Occasionally a movie file will be quite large but when it is played the total time shown is only a few minutes. The movie will begin, and then play for a minute or two but there is much more to be seen. If you move the progress indicator, a new part of the movie will appear and play to the end of the progress bar. Moving the progress indicator to various positions will result in different parts of the movie playing but only for the minute or so left showing in total time.

Any idea what causes this and how to fix it?

I forget another explanation for this. It was quite some time ago on the forums.

I generally try different players. My favourite or VLC & MPlayer: CODECs list and alternate players for Movies

Oh ... BTW if you're previewing a file whilst it's downlding & this happens ... it's because files don't necessarily download sequentially. The 1st & last & some middle parts might downld 1st & the rest of the downlding process is filling in the holes/gaps. That's why sometimes you start downlding a video file & it immediately shows its complete size on the computer despite it might only be a few % downlded. The computer system sees the start & finish & thinks ok yes it starts at 0.00 & finished as x.xx with the info supplied it runs for x amount of time, & I think also relates to file size in a similar fashion.

Thanks. I've tried several with the same result. An example file is 670 megs and shows play time of 5 minutes. The movie is actually about 60 minutes.

I will download the VLC and MPlayers to see if that works. And I'll keep looking on the forum for the info. Just don't know what to search for...

Thanks for your help.