Help! Anyone?

I have a couple of mpeg files that I've had for some time (a couple of
years anyway) that used to play fine. Now, they only play the first
couple of minutes (with the progress indicator moving WAY too fast
compared to full file size and playback length) and then stop _BUT_ it
doesn't seem that the files are corrupted at that point: if you use
the little progress indicator to move to a specific point in the file,
it will go there properly. For instance, if I start the video and then
'jump' to the middle, or 3/4 point, or very near the end, then
playblack jumps to the proper point in the file, but will stop at
whatever point it has reached when the progress indicator (still moving
too fast) gets to the end. The video's duration is incorrectly
reported as being only a couple of minutes long. Same behaviou in
Windows Media Player 6.4, 9, 10, and BSPlayer.

I've used every mpeg header cleaner I could find, but nothing ever
changes.

ANY IDEAS???

Eric

mightyeric@gmail.com wrote:
Have you tried the VideoLan player? It has it's own self contained
codecs so it does not rely on whatever other codecs may be on your system.

Sames behavior _EXCEPT_ the video kind of jumps and the window resizes
to default (after I manually enlarged it) about every 20-30 seconds. I
don't know if this is some kind of clue to those of you in the know, or
if it is just a quirk with VideoLan.?.

mightyeric@gmail.com wrote:

No, videolan is one of the more stable players. It dosen't rely on
outside codecs.

You have something going on in there. Files that used to play correctly
now jerk along?

It sounds like its time for some diagnostics. Complete virus and trojan
scan, Scan disk, Defrag. Also, have you installed anything recently? Any
video apps or codec pac's or things in that area?