Wide World of Women

I don't visit the shopping forum often, but this piqued my curiosity...

I downloaded all 24 clips on this page. They all played fine for me in Media Player Classic as well as VLC.
So, I tried them in Windows Media Player (I have version 10) and Power DVD, where I ran into issues.
The clips opened, but played erratically. In WMP, they played choppy, similar to a digital OTA broadcast on a windy day. In Power DVD, I would get a still image of the first frame, but the audio played perfectly.

I decided to run a couple of the clips through VideoRedo's QuickStream fix. Presto! The "fixed" files played perfectly in all of the above players. Apparently there are stream errors in you recordings which are causing the issues; from my understanding there isn't much you can do about them, as far as prevention when you record. They just happen, so to speak. If you have VideoRedo, you could run your raw recordings through its QuickStream fix before you edit them down. You could also edit your clips in Redo, and when you export them, stream errors will get fixed that way as well. If you don't have Redo, it's a great overall program, but not free ($75)...I couldn't justify paying that just for this, but that's up to you.

In any case, you'll never be able to please everyone, because everyone has different computer setups/capabilities/programs. Just do what works for you, and if you can find a better way, go for it. For the downloaders out there, listen to HSF

If people are having troubles playing clips, they should post in the Tech Support Forum, or send a friendly PM to the poster of the clip.

For those of you having troubles, try downloading and playing this clip and see if it works.
It's one of RR's posted above that I ran through Redo:


http://www.mediafire.com/file/kyry5ai8x ... 802%29.mpg


Hopefully that provides some insight and assistance
Oh, and Kara is a knockout

Thanks for the feedback impala.

Unfortunately the raw files I have .ts (transport stream) files. They are ripped directly from my cable box via firewire. Transport stream files are great quality but are a pain to edit as they are probably the most unstable files to work with The SD stuff isnt bad to work with, but the HD files can be a real annoyance. I use womble to edit and convert to mpeg cause there is no loss in quality. However womble does show all the errors in the playback before it converts to mpeg.

http://rapidshare.com/files/420118508/090810c.mpg.001
http://rapidshare.com/files/420121400/090810c.mpg.002

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