ABC transport streams

[mian]

They're funky. Had a conversation with some folks here once upon a time about that very thing, but can't find it just now. I can watch them fine, but should I strip the commercials and try to compress, things go funky. AutoGK finds way more frames than it expects and sometimes refuses to continue. If it finishes both passes, the resulting compressed file consistently has weird audio issues. Sometimes it has background audio (like car noises, wind, music etc) but no dialog. Sometimes the sync is way off (like 30 minutes, not milliseconds). Whatever happens, it doesn't happen to my Fox or NBC keepers, just ABC. I remember these issues going back to Lost and more recently, V.

If I ever had a solution I can't recall what it was. This weekend I've been working with some files. I've tried VideoRedo Plus' quickstream fix, no help. I tried using videoredo to reencode the audio track (helps when there's a signal interruption and slight audio sync issues), no help. I tried mpeg2repair, no help. Now I've demuxed and remuxed with tsmuxer and am awaiting results.

Anyone else ever run into anything like this, or have any suggestions?

[whurlston]

They're funky. Had a conversation with some folks here once upon a time about that very thing, but can't find it just now.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...uot-V-quot

I don't think there was ever a good resolution. What show are is giving you trouble now?

[mian]

I can't believe that thread was this year. Seems like long ago. I guess that's why I couldn't find it, was looking in the wrong timeframe.

I found the still unprocessed V episodes cluttering one of my processing folders, the same ones from that thread, that's what I'm experimenting with now. I'm also having issues with Revenge. Had forgotten about the option of stream-copying the audio. That's something, at least. Looks like I was pursuing other compression options as well.

Thanks for the recall or the searchfu or whatever. At least I know where I was last.

[whurlston]

I'll test Revenge if I get a chance. I haven't even watched any episodes yet. BTW, Anna is in the new Showtime series "Homeland".

[mian]

Heh, I prefer to think of "Anna" as Inara, but good tip nonetheless. I'm using pcostanza's tip: AMD video converter, and it seems to work quite well even with the trouble files. I can finally compress my humongo pursuit of happyness recording!

[pcostanza]

I caught the first Homeland and haven't seen last nights episode but it took me 15 minutes to realize who 'Anna' was. She looked familiar and I couldn't place the face. She certainly seemed much taller in V than she does in Homeland. I like her better with longer hair but maybe that's just because I'm losing mine.

[mian]

I think her hair in V was designed to somehow make her look more reptilian, enhance the length of her neck or something. I doubt there's any hairstyle that's going to make her look ugly anymore than there's a hairstyle that could make me look attractive. :o