Skipping problem - which tools to redo timeline? and/or trim start?

[martint123]

For the first time I have recorded a long DVB-S2 HD broadcast and am having nightmares trying to watch it (very early start F1 qualifying).
The pre-padding may have started the recording before the channel came on air?? My attempts to skip forward don't seem have any effect other than usually going back to the menu (NMT) or end of the recording - sometimes 1 hour 40+ minutes into the recording.

I've tried a few things from basic googling to trim the first 5 minutes off, but they don't seem to produce a watchable file.
VNC displays a tiny screen for the first few minutes and then expands when the video starts.

It's an encrypted channel and I'm using acamd and my own card locally, live viewing is glitch free. I'll probably watch the re-run now, but for future, I'd like a suggestion
I'm sure trim and/or remux tools have been recommended but I can't seem to find them.... Being a 15gb files, some of the tools I tried off the web would be still running when I've popped my clogs.....

[johnsonx42]

try http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MPEG2Repair. I've used it to quick-fix .ts files before feeding them to mkvmerge.

[martint123]

try http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MPEG2Repair. I've used it to quick-fix .ts files before feeding them to mkvmerge.

Thanks for that. It produced 1000's of these in the log file, but when going for a fix the results were the same.
Possibly as it says only limited support for h.264 video errors.
I think I'll go for SD for the race tomorrow!

Code:

Sequence Frame 1(0-X) / Time 0:00:00 :
Error: TS Packet has payload_unit_start_indicator but no PES header
Error: TS Packet has payload_unit_start_indicator but no PES header
Error: TS Packet has payload_unit_start_indicator but no PES header
Error: TS Packet has payload_unit_start_indicator but no PES header
Error: TS Packet has payload_unit_start_indicator but no PES header
Error: TS Packet has payload_unit_start_indicator but no PES header
Error: TS Packet has payload_unit_start_indicator but no PES header

[johnsonx42]

oh, sorry, I wasn't thinking about the fact that your streams are mostly h.264, as I'm used to everything being MPEG-2 here. my bad.

[Reddwarf]

Try TSDoctor from Cypheros.de, it has a free trial period and I find it well worth the money.

[martint123]

Try TSDoctor from Cypheros.de, it has a free trial period and I find it well worth the money.

Ah yes, I tried it a long time ago to see if it would fix a problem. Unfortunately it remembers and won't let me try the new version ;(

[mvallevand]

Ah yes, I tried it a long time ago to see if it would fix a problem. Unfortunately it remembers and won't let me try the new version ;(

Do you still have the problem file? If you could cut the first 100MB, I could see if I see anything. Also. I'd like to see that the MVP logs looks like when playing it (logs are almost always the best place to start.

Martin

[martint123]

Thanks for that offer Martin, I still have the file on the server but won't be able to get at it until the morning.
I'll do a 100mb cutchunk but that will be all blank I think as the initial blank bit was around 3 seconds so I will do a second cutchunk that includes that start of visible image. I'll generate fresh logs as well.

thanks again

[Reddwarf]

Ah yes, I tried it a long time ago to see if it would fix a problem. Unfortunately it remembers and won't let me try the new version ;(

Ah, mmm. Well, it is not that expensive and I think it is worth the money.

[whurlston]

Aac or mpg/ac3 audio?