MPEG Movie File Skips Around

[reddog418]

I have an old family movie in MPEG format, and it's about 125 mb's large, and I know it's almost 20 minutes long. However when I open it in any kind of video player it says it's only 1 min 50 sec long. When I try to fast forward, it will skip around 5 or 7 minutes, but only have gone 10 seconds in teh slider. No matter what, the max time for the movie is 1:50 and not 20 minutes. What's going on? What happened to the file? How can I get my movie back?

 

[Lorn]

It sounds like it has been corrupted. Is there any way for you to re-encode the original movie file? Have you tried it on any other computers? It may be a codec issue, as well.

 

[tk11]

Try opening the file in virtual dub. Link
You'll have to save it in avi format but it can sometime recover corrupt mpegs.

If you just want to play the movie as is you may have better luck with vlc media player instead of windows media player.
It's free and you can get it here.