Correcting timelines long after recording.

[jackk]

I have about 10 movies sitting in my F drive with bad timelines. Can these be corrected? I have read about the program timeline, but it appears that all of the discussion concerns post processing, which I beleive is done right after the video is recorded. If so, How do I go about it? Thanks

[pens18aj]

I created a fix.bat and put it in the GBPVR directory. In the bat file I have this line

Pause
move "%~dpn1.mpg" "%~dpn1_faulty.mpg"
"c:\program files\mplayer\mencoder.exe" -of mpeg -ovc copy -oac copy "%~dpn1_faulty.mpg" -o "%~dpn1.mpg"
Pause


Then I just right click on the MPG and say open with this fix.bat file. I have attached a txt version download it and save it in your GBPVR directory and rename the extention from .txt to .bat[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]



download
Mencoder/Mplayer - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7....html(Note the current available version of mencoder(MPlayer-mingw32–1.0rc1) from the main website runs about 3x slower than builds from the link below.)

Mencoder/Mplayer Alt link - http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/mplayer/

[jackk]

Thanks Pens18aj
I'm going on a 10 day fishing trip for steelhead Thursday, and I'll get to this as soon as I get back. I don't want to mess things up for my wife and leave them that way for a long time. Besides I need the time to tie flies.
I'm sure I'll have some questions

Thanks again.

[jackk]

Pens,

I downloaded and saved the txt file in GBPVR, then changed its name to fix.bat.

I downloaded MPlayer from the first site because I could identify its name there. I unzipped it and found only two applications. Niether was MPG. The two applications that I found were MPlayer and Mencoder. Neither gave me the option to open them with the .bat file
where did I go wrong?

[rscheller]

Did you put the Mencoder/Mplayer files that you downloaded and unzipped into the directory path

c:\program files\mplayer\

as pens18aj stated?

Then when you right click on your defective mpg file and select open with, browse to the location of the txt.bat file and select it then the .bat file should find what it's looking for.

[jackk]

No I did not read the bat file. but I have now and i think that I have it correct. But after starting out by right clicking a movie called 5 fingers, then negotiating to the fix.bat file, i got the follwing error message. That my movie was not a valid win32 application. It appears tht the .bat file is looking for a different type of file. All of my video files are ATI File Player files. Are they suposed to be, or is this a remmant of my effort to install an ATI Tuner before going with Hauppauge?
Thanks

[jackk]

renamed the folder holding Mencoder andrestarted the process, and got thesame error. I assumed taht this meant that the bat file was the problme.

I have reinstalled the fix.txt file and renamed it fix.bat. I now get a different error, which I donot understand. see attachment Can anyone give me a suggestion on how to proceed

[jackk]

A bit of success
Used a different build of Mencoder and the program goes through some paces. However the results area disappointing. The processing takes aobut 5 min for a whole movie
After the first video was reprocessed, the timeline showed a length of 0 minutes. So I tried a second. When the processing started, a new, second file icon appeared with an underscore and the word faulty behind the name, much as I expected from the bat file. When the processing was completed, both icons remained. I expected the file without the _faulty to be replaced by a corrected file, and for the file with the _faulty to disappear. It didn't happen. When I played the two files, the file without _faulty had a zero to zero timeline, but the file with _faulty had a timeline of an hour and 8 minutes which is probably the original erroneous timeline.
I ran a third video and checked the timeline before running the program. It was 45 minutes for a 2 hour filme. A second icon with _faulty appeared as the program started. When it finished, the file with_faulty had a timeline of 45 minute, the file without a timeline would not play. It was just black.
Any ideas?

[pens18aj]

sorry to hear that it is not working for you. Maybe try the other program that some other people have had success with. You can read about it on the pmwiki, and you can run it manually like you currently are instead of using it in your postproccess.bat like the example says. You could create another .bat file and do the same process as you did before by right-clicking on the file and selecting "Open With" and pick the new .bat file.



http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/ReTime

[jackk]

Thanks,
I have continued to try to run this with mixed results. Some now turn out ok, some won't play.
I think that I will modify your txt file and try Retime next. Fortunately, this problem will go away, because I only need to fix the time line on those that I recorded prior to making changes in the registry. Those tht I cannot fix, I will re-record

Thanks again