Can't play some movie files correctly. Need suggestions.

[RigaMortus2]

I have a few movie files that are approx 139MB. That should be a good 20min of movie time (at least). The problem is, when I play the files (either through Window's Media Player or Quicktime) the movie time is reduced to like 1.5 minutes. But I know the entire 20 minutes is there. If I let the movie play on it's own, it will end in 1.5 minutes even though there is more movie there. If I jump around the movie (fast forward and rewind), I can see the missing scenes that aren't showing, so that is why I know the whole movie is there.

Another way to put it, if I click and jump to the end of the movie, I will see the final scene BUT the timer will still say that the movie is only 1.5 minutes long, and I may have like 10 seconds left (of those 1.5 minutes) before it will stop on me anyway.

Hopefully I explained my problem in a way people can understand. Is this a common problem? And is there a way I can fix this so that the whole movie plays?

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Not uncommon, but I've not found a consistent way around it. I usually chalk it up to errors during the encoding process and forget about it. If it's something important, I re-code it to another format and that will usually fix it, but transcoding can be quite time-consuming.

 

[XCorvis]

Sounds like there was an error in the encoding process. Like Rodrigo says, re-encode it. (From the original source, not the bad copy.)