Help Automatically Repairing DVB files

[johnnyb]

Does anyone who uses DVB to record know of a command line tool which can 'fix' the recording. As you may know, DVB transmission/reception isn't perfect. This means the captured mpg stream has missing and out of sync video and audio frames. These have to be corrected if the program is used to make a Video DVD, otherwise the picture/audio is likely to be out of sync (usually by a few seconds). At the moment I use either Ulead Movie Factory 4 to repair the file, or if this fails (which it does occassionally) I use PVAStrumento. The problem with both these tools is that they are gui based and take a 5- 10 minutes to run. It would be much nicer to have something automatically repair the recording in the postprocessing.bat file. Any ideas ?

[stefan]

You don't need the gui version to use PVAstrumento. There is a commandline tool in the zipfile. Download the zipfile that has the helpfile with it. It's a bit messy to find, but if you open the search tab, and search for "commandline" or "jobfile" you will find a section called "jobfile syntax". It will explain how to run batch files. Now "all" you need to do is to automagically create the jobfiles. With a bit of experimenting on the postprocessing.bat file you might get it to work. I know too little about batch file processing to help you on that one, but I'm sure you can write stuff to another file... They also refer to a forum, don't know if it's an active one, but you might get some help there.

[johnnyb]

Thanks Stefan. You're right, I dug around the help and managed to find info on the command line version. Why it isn't made more obvious I don't know. Have run the command line version a few times to prove it works, but like you, my DOS programming is almost non-existant, so I will have have to try and do it when I get time to learn.