Hey everyone. I am having an issue and I was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I just got a new computer with Vista (yeah, yeah, I know). Well, I am using TivoToGo to transfer .tivo files to my computer. I also have a program to remove the .tivo rapper and turn the files into .mpg. The problem I am having is that in Windows Media Player 11 and Windows Movie Maker 6.0, the total time display of the file is not the total run time of the file (on either the .tivo or the .mpg file). So, WMP 11 only shows 10:23 for the half-hour shows I Tivo and move to my computer. It plays all 30 minutes fine, but the time and the blue cursor stop at 10:23. It does the same thing with the hour shows, only listing 20 minutes for them.

The real problem is in the Movie Maker. When I import the clip it shows the same abbreviated time, but only allows you to actually work with the time shown. So I only get the first 10 minutes of my half-hour shows and 20 minutes of my hour shows. The weird thing is, the problem doesn’t exist if I do it on my laptop running WMP 10 and Movie Maker 5.1. The exact same files show the correct time. Now for another wrinkle. The error doesn’t happen if I recorded the shows using “high quality” on my Tivo settings (but the files are 5 times as big which is a big drawback).

I have only found two posts on the web with people mentioning the problem and no solutions. The only suggestion is that the files are being encoded wrong, which would make sense except they are fine in WMP 10 and Movie Editor 5.1. But, maybe I am missing something. I am just trying to see if anyone has had the same problem or heard of this type of problem or possibly know of anything I can try to fix it. Thanks.