ts file shows length too long?

[SuttonWillow]

There are actually different symptoms that may not be related to this issue, but I've been working around them. One is inability to edit file, and the other is extremely slow editing. I'm able to sometimes edit file in Microsoft Movie Maker if it doesn't work in Power Director. Ok, I'm hoping someone can point me to solutions to these two issues, but this thread is for my primary issue at hand, which is the time shown in the length field of the file is not the correct length. Most of the time it shows a longer length than it is. Whenever that happens, the file will play (in Media Player), but if I click to advance past where the unknown problem is, it freezes. It also prevents me from editing in Power Director, but the last 2 files that did this I was able to edit in Movie Maker. I don't like Movie Maker because it takes 3 hours to process a file but only 30 min. in Power Director.

I record OTA TV movies and edit them in Power Director, which usually works very well. I have tried to fix this problem using TS Doctor and some other "fixers" but although TS Doctor does correct the length time, it doesn't correct the issue where I can't edit in Power Director. TS Doctor tells me there are no errors. I assume that .ts is the only file type that NPVR records to, as I wasn't able to find any option to that.omegle xender

I have been using NPVR v. 4.2.5 since Jan. This issue started showing up in the past month, even though I haven't changed anything on my system. Perhaps I just started noticing it, because lately I've seen about 10 files not editable, in which I did some experimentation to try to fix them. I end up re-recording most of them, as OTA fortunately rebroadcasts most movies on a later date.

My system is an HP Pavilion with Windows 8.1 Pro. I'm using KWorld tuners. Log files are attached. I was not able to figure out why 2 of the files would not zip, as they were "in use" by some unknown process, so they are included as "copy" of the originals.

[BrettB]

I have been using NPVR v. 4.2.5 since Jan. This issue started showing up in the past month, even though I haven't changed anything on my system. Perhaps I just started noticing it, because lately I've seen about 10 files not editable, in which I did some experimentation to try to fix them. I end up re-recording most of them, as OTA fortunately rebroadcasts most movies on a later date.

If you just started using NPVR in January, why did you use v4 instead of v5? V5 is now well over a year old. There will not be any fixes or updates for v4. I would strongly suggest that you spend your time and efforts moving to v5 rather than trying to troubleshoot any problems with v4.

[mvallevand]

NextPVR copies TS streams as is, V4 or V5. TS containers are not specifically designed to be editable or even seekable, the way they are broadcast may not even have valid time stamps from start to finish. I have seen really bad examples recently on Bounce and other OTA networks. The fact that TS Doctor reports now error basically confirms NextPVR is doing its job.

It is up to your edit software to recreate proper time stamps and lengths not NextPVR so if there is an issue you report it to them. I would also suggest using a better container like mkv or mp4 as your output file.

There is a bug in NextPVR as the reported duration is not guaranteed to match the actual duration if the data stops flowing but I don't see that is your problem.

V4 did have a nice feature that was lost in V5 and it created a time index file called filename.Timing.Info to help process TS files You can look it it to see the time column and size column growing. This won't help the edit process but it does help NextPVR.exe play raw TS files accurately without editing. If you try to play an edited file in NextPVR that file would have to be deleted. Also in v4 you need to get the zipped logs via NextPVR.exe setup screen not directly.

Martin