Repairing the timeline of an MPEG

[UncleJohnsBand]

Glad it worked for you. mencoder is a real gem.

The 23035 drivers can be found over at shspvr.com. ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_150-500/inf/

I don't know when they were released but the time and date there shows Feb 8 2005. I've only had one problem with them. Just one channel has strange audio - voices sound kind of robotic. It's rare that I record from it though, and given I've never had a single timeline issue since I switched to these, the benefit far outweighs the annoyance.

Others have said that the 23025 drivers also work well, but I haven't tried them.

Thanks....I am going to give these a try and see what happens....

[nitrogen_widget]

23035 drivers - looks like battlestar galactica came in ok. I havn't watched it yet, but it recorded, ran comskip, comclean, & rename recordings correctly.

That is a beutiful thing.
I thought I had put the 23035 drivers on last week. Guess I didn't.
Thanks to whomever took the time to figure that out.

Thanks for the batch file also.

[groover km]

I think I'll have to give mencoder a try - shame really, as retime worked fine except for the resultant files not showing up in the recordings directory.

If anyone uses Retime+Comskip+PostProcessing.bat I would be very interested to see your batch file... this sorta stuff bugs me.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Glad it worked for you. mencoder is a real gem.

The 23035 drivers can be found over at shspvr.com. ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_150-500/inf/

I don't know when they were released but the time and date there shows Feb 8 2005. I've only had one problem with them. Just one channel has strange audio - voices sound kind of robotic. It's rare that I record from it though, and given I've never had a single timeline issue since I switched to these, the benefit far outweighs the annoyance.

Others have said that the 23025 drivers also work well, but I haven't tried them.

Thanks....I am going to give these a try and see what happens....

I recorded for 2 hours with all 3 tunners running with a total of 8 different shows and all recorded without a problem....no bad timeline....sound is fine and white balance is fine.

Update: I ran another 2 hour batch of recordings....two recodings ended up with a corrupt timeline. Interestingly they both had the exact same length of recording reported and they were both during the same timeslot......one was recorded on the 150 and the other was recorded on one of the PVR500 tunner. The other PVR500 tunner recorded its show during that timelost without issue.

I guess I just have to live with periodic timeline problems.

[gEd]

move “%~dpn1.mpg” “%~dpn1_faulty.mpg”
call retime “%~dpn1_faulty.mpg” “%~dpn1.mpg”
del/q “%~dpn1_faulty.mpg”
comskip %1
rectracker %1 > rectracker.log

The quote symbols that have been used on the wiki do not work correctly in a bat file. On the command line, they appear as ö instead of "

Had me going for ages that did !

[erik]

I corrected the wiki

[fla]

I had recorded two programs simultaneously for the first time since buying a second PVR-150 (8:00-8:30 and 8:00-10:00). The thirty minute show was fine. The two hour show appeared to play ok in GBPVR (no stuttering or audio sync problems) but when skipping, a total timeline of only 52 secs would popup and the skip didn't work. GBPVR probably thought I was too close to the end of the show and refused to skip.

The faulty mpeg played fine in VLC (VideoLAN) player and the skip command worked fine. The timeline that popped up in VLC when skipping was correctly showing 2 hours.

Running retime.bat on the 5GB faulty mpeg took a while but the resulting mpg played and skipped perfectly in GBPVR.

Don't know why recording two shows at once caused a boken mpeg timeline but if anyone gets this problem try retime, it's great!

[erik]

VLC does not use the timeline info for positioning in the recording but only looks at byte locations taking the byterate and the total filesize into account.
Thus VLC is not hurt by a broken timeline.

This is consistent with your observations.

[zhrsg1990]

where is the download URL?

[mvallevand]

It's a very old thread but it is still on the referenced wiki link http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/ReTime

Martin