VOB File Plays only 30 seconds
 

Hi,

I'm using BS Player 1.36....great player but I just loaded a VOB Video of 4 minutes. BS Player (also Real Player) will only play 30 seconds! WMP plays entire video. Any explanations appreciated.

Marc

Could you tell us wich MPEG2 decoder is used to play the file ?
If you use an alternate one such as Elecard or BitCtrl it's the same ?

How do you determine that? Are you talking about filters?
Let me know where, and how to look for the particular decoder that is decoding the VOB file.l

Marc

Open the file->rightclick->filters

Looks like MPEG2 DEMULTIPLXER and Cyberlink Video SP/Decoder and
Cyberlink Audio Decoder HP_DT

So, you have CyberLink PowerDVD installed. You can try to install one of the other filters I've mentioned. I use Elecard and never got a problem.

Yeah....just installed my Elecard Player and now BS Player... with all its superior features.....plays the whole file!

Thanks,

marc

PS: Why does it need the Elecard Filter-Decoder? What's wrong with the other ones?....(just curious)

BSPlayer works fine with some filters, bad with other filters and not at all with some.

Some MPEG-2 demultiplexers and/or video decoders refuse to accept some (malformed) streams. There might be a corrupted part after the first 30 seconds. That's a guess.

Or perhaps the bitrate field of your VOB was set to a wrong (too high) value, so that your current demuxer thinks the file is only 30 s long. In this case BSPlayer + Elecard v2.0 plays past the end of file and reports no errors.