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[audunth]

Hi!

I did a thread about this in the MC13 forum, but I didn't get it solved. Now I've migrated to Win7 and installed the latest MC14 and the problem is still there. The duration field is empty for all my video files except .WMV and .MP4. It shows the duration of all my audio files. I can't even enter the duration manually in the tag editor. This is really annoying, as I have to play a video file and look at the progress bar to see how long it is.

Anyone have any idea what's wrong? Most my file types are set to automatic. I have the latest versions of Haali Media Splitter and ffdshow installed.

[Yaobing]

Does "Update Library (from tags)" fix the problem?

If you set Playback Method to "JRiver video engine (using DirectShow filters)" for a file type, and select a set of filters that you know should work, and then do an "Update Library (from tags)", would duration be obtained?

[audunth]

Thanks, update library (from tags) worked, now I can see the duration

Obviously it didn't work for my DVDs, Blu-rays or HD DVDs, since the file imported into MC (VIDEO_TS.IFO, INDEX.BDMV, HVA00001.VTI) isn't really the video file, just sort of a startup file. For the .BDMV and .VTI files, there aren't even a duration field, since MC thinks they're data files when I import them and I have to change media type to Video in the tag editor manually. I guess I can enter the duration for such media in the comment field or something, unless there's a way to input the duration manually?

[Yaobing]

Obviously it didn't work for my DVDs, Blu-rays or HD DVDs,

I would suggest you try MyMovies.  You can use it to get metadata for movies and MC will import the data.  Search this forum for "MyMovies" and "sidecar" for more info.