Cannot fast foward with TCMP for ppc

funcube2 · 12-27-05, 11:30 AM

I have recorded tv shows on the a DVD-RW. I now transfer it to my ppc and view with TCPMP for ppc. I can not fast foward.

I try to move the scroll bar and it jumps back to the beginnning. the tv show continues to play. Moving the scroll bar has not effect on the show I am watching.

If I want to view a show from a certain point, I cannot. I must watch the entire show from the beginning again.

Is there a way so I can fast forward to where I left off?

Howard2k · 12-27-05, 03:46 PM

Please don't cross post. Thanks.

Can you provide more information on the file. How it's encoded etc.

funcube2 · 12-27-05, 03:55 PM

not sure how I crossed posted. I put it in another forum and it was moved to this one.

I used Super (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) to convert it to AVI from VOB. I then viewed it on TCMP but cannot fast forward it. Any suggestions?

Howard2k · 12-27-05, 03:59 PM

No, it was posted to both and one I removed.

You viewed the VOB on TCPMP?

funcube2 · 12-27-05, 04:03 PM

I know what you mean now. I accidently posted in 2x in the first forum. one was moved the other one stayed. When I tried to submit it, the page froze so I clicked it again. I did not know how to delete the 2nd one. Thanks for deleting it.

I didn't try to view the VOB. It it too large. I used SUPER to make it smaller and convert it to AVI. Will TCPMP let me view VOB? How can I make it smaller?

h0t1ce · 12-27-05, 04:09 PM

It`s the video file that was not 'indexed' when encoded. It should give you the same result if played on any media player. to fix you would need to re-encode the file.

h0t1ce · 12-27-05, 05:33 PM

here is a tidbit taken from VirtualDub's site (a software you can use by the way to fix this problem ) on missing index information

"Missing or truncated index: This one is very common as it happens with any incomplete file. The problem here is that the offsets and sizes of the index can be recovered by scanning the whole file, which VirtualDub does when it detects a missing index, but the key frame flags that are required for seeking and decoding can't. VirtualDub recovers these by decoding the frames both in forward and reverse order and watching for artifacts; this drives some codecs nuts -- it's not exactly correct usage -- but usually it recovers the key frame information safely. If this recovery process is not done, then VirtualDub has to assume that only the first frame is a key frame, which makes seeking very painful -- potentially requiring every frame in the video stream to be decoded to retrieve the last frame."

This usually can happen if the encoder does not correctly include and index or does not put it in the file at all. So when a media Player tries and plays it it doesnt know where the keyframes are so it assumes there is only one keyframe and it is the first frame. The result will be that if you try to ffw it will send you back to the first frame of the video everytime no matter where you are in the timeline. If you use VirtualDub you can actually do a quick re-encode and it will fix the index and add keyframes.

hope it helps :)