Re: [gentoo-user] Video plays past end of time it shows

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On 25/08/2021 19:08, Andrew Udvare wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 13:44 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com
> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     I have a video that does something weird.  The video plays about 6
>     minutes or so past the length it should.  During that extended time, you
>     can't fast forward, pause or anything either.  I've ran into this a
>     couple times with my deer camera and thought it odd but didn't worry
>     about it.  My question is, can this be fixed somehow?  Can I get mplayer
>     or something to process the file and adjust the time it thinks the video
>     is to what it actually is?
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> You can try to re-encode or maybe remux with ffmpeg.
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>     Bonus, how in the world did it get that way?
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> More than likely the metadata in the file is off.
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> This playback issue can happen with VBR MP3s and also Oggs as the length
> of the file can be spoofed in the header.
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I have this with my in-car mp3 player. Every so often it has a 
brain-fart, gets thoroughly confused, and displays one song while 
playing another. This is invariably accompanied by it either playing the 
tune for the length of the song it thinks it is, or the display gets 
stuck as the song overruns the length it thinks it is.

I usually end up pulling the chip out and putting it back, which resets 
it, but it's then a nightmare because the player has to re-read the 
chip, during which it plays random tracks from 32GB of music and any 
attempt to tell it what you want it to play is blocked. Surely it should 
let you drill down the directory structure? Even worse, all this effort 
is to build up a db of tracks by genre, artist etc, which I never use! 
(It takes about 10 minutes which, I believe, is the national average 
journey length in the UK...)

Cheers,
Wol