MPG "corruption"

[aslade]

Video I've been recording for the last two years seem to have been slightly corrupted on record in some way.
this shows up when i use "comclean" to cut out adverts and top and tail programs.




Although this has not been apparent on playback using GBPVR or Videolan, it is causing problem when encoding to DIVX
Videolan seems to play anything i throw at it but my new HD player, the Rhapsody N35 seems to only like clean DIVX's

I've recently moved to a newer server and still get the same errors above

If i encode any DVDs or such like with any programme, the rhapsody is happy to play it.
If i play the GBPVR files in the rhapsody if it happy
If i encode GBPVR files into DIVX using the same settings as abouve, it will not play them smoothly at all.

Is there anything i can do to smooth the programme file before i encode it that may help?

[sub]

Sorry but GB-PVR has no control over these low level aspects of the MPEG encoding process. It's all done in hardware on your PVR150.

Video I've been recording for the last two years seem to have been slightly corrupted on record in some way.
this shows up when i use "comclean" to cut out adverts and top and tail programs.

Is it only when you use comclean? This is known to do evil things to files, totally breaking the timestamps in the file.

[stefan]

Is there anything i can do to smooth the programme file before i encode it that may help?

pvastrumento can do such things for you, if it's not too corrupted

[Koenie]

I suppose you use the mencoder version of comclean. It gives the same errors here. I think this is a typical Hauppauge issue. No idea whether it is a driver or hardware thing though. It definitely appears in several driver versions (I did not update drivers the last 9 months though, maybe someone can comment on the most recent drivers).