Need some help repairing some .TS files.

[RushMaster]

Hey guys, first post, but I'm gonna get right down to business here.

I'm working with about 15 .TS files here of a Metallica concert that I'm working on trying to get converted to DVD, but I don't need help with that. Problem is that one of the .TS files ( or maybe even more ) are corrupt or something. (There are cuts in the video at times, and it throws everything right off sync as well) I was wondering how I would go about fixing these files if it's possible. I've already tried mpeg2repair and that did nothing for me. Still had the same cuts and audio sync problems, according to the error report it gave me though, turns out theres much more wrong with it than what I had original thought. Theres gotta be a for sure way to fix these files so that theres no cuts and chops throughout it. Please help. Thanks.

(PS: I know its not my video card or computer speeds or anything like that, even after going ahead and using the files to convert to dvd and whatnot, the cuts are still on the dvd when i play it on my comp, as well as a standard dvd player, so its definitely an issue with the .ts files)

[Soopafresh]

Download the 15 day eval of VideoRedo and choose Tools - Quickstream Fix. Mpeg2repair should have fixed it, though.

First Post? outfi.wav

[RushMaster]

Heh. I was just in the middle of trying that as I was reading your post. =p

*waits until it is finished before I type what the result was.........*

Hmmmm interesting.... It did fix it to a degree. However seeing as it is a music concert, there is a noticable transition from where it dropped the corrupt frame and skipped to the next clean area. (even tho it was probably only one frame) and with it being during a song....highly noticible. So it seems both still have yet to fix the problem. I want it to repair the broken frame, not kill it.

[Soopafresh]

Good luck on that. You're trying to restore something that isn't there. ProjectX has a feature to repeat audio frames to fill in sound dropouts, but the resulting_g_g_g effec_c_t is w_a_weird

[guns1inger]

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on where you are coming from), digital isn't like analogue. With analogue you usually don't loose anything. You may get noise in the signal, or the picture gets ghosty if the signal is poor, but you still get something. With digital, it is all or nothing. If the signal gets poor, even for a frame, you loose that frame. You don't get a poor quality version, you loose data. If you are hoping these repair tools will rebuild missing data to replace image or audio that you don't have, then you need to manage your expectations down to reality.

[RushMaster]

Well, a person who authored a dvd using the same set of files somehow magically made the entire thing flawless. I wonder how that's possible then. Hmmmmmmm.

I should also mention that these particular files can be freely downloaded off a hosting site, could it be that over time the files become corrupt on their own or something? I even tried re-downloading the broken .ts file and it didn't make a difference. For some reason I've noticed that popularly downloaded files usually end up fried. I remember that being the case with kazaa back in the day.

[guns1inger]

Ask them and find out . . . . .

[RushMaster]

I have. Unfortunately I can't seem to get a straight answer. I've even tried contacting the original uploaded of the .ts files to ask him if he knows about them having issues, or if its just me or what it is. He never seems to want to reply either.

[Soopafresh]

Yikes, dude. 20 minutes on and you're already violating the golden rule about no sharing of copywritten media. Modify your post to explain what you really meant, 'mkay ?

[RushMaster]

It isn't copywritten material. Where did you get that idea?

Anyways, maybe I could give it another go with mpeg2repair and post some of the errors it lists in the log file, maybe that will give you guys a better idea of what I could do to fix it.

[RushMaster]

Any ideas as to what these mean?


Sequence Frame 7654(53-P) / Time 0:04:15 :
VideoError: Invalid frame_motion_type for macroblock. MBA=6588(1728,864)
Additional error(s) detected. Increase VerboseLogLevel in INI file for details.
FileInfo: Last video errors span 39 bytes at file offset 575307828

Sequence Frame 10928(255-I) / Time 0:06:04 :
VideoWarning: Discontinuity of (1+) packet(s). First packet ending at offset 823542460
VideoWarning: Discontinuity of (1+) packet(s). First packet ending at offset 823543212
Additional error(s) detected. Increase VerboseLogLevel in INI file for details.
FileInfo: Last video errors span 358 bytes at file offset 823541775

Sequence Frame 11431(756-B) / Time 0:06:21 :
VideoWarning: Discontinuity of (1+) packet(s). First packet ending at offset 861949356
VideoWarning: Discontinuity of (1+) packet(s). First packet ending at offset 861950108
Additional error(s) detected. Increase VerboseLogLevel in INI file for details.
FileInfo: Last video errors span 12 bytes at file offset 861948699

Sequence Frame 13696(975-P) / Time 0:07:36 :
VideoError: Slice 46 followed by invalid slice 41. (Should differ by one row)
Additional error(s) detected. Increase VerboseLogLevel in INI file for details.
FileInfo: Last video errors span 19842 bytes at file offset 1033756512

Sequence Frame 13697(983-P) / Time 0:07:37 :
AudioError: Corrupted AC3 frame of 2860 payload bytes at file offset 1033705073
AudioWarning: Timestamp gap of 0.192000 sec. ending at file offset 1033705073
Additional error(s) detected. Increase VerboseLogLevel in INI file for details.
FileInfo: Last video errors span 19832 bytes at file offset 1033813674

Sequence Frame 13724(1006-B) / Time 0:07:38 :
VideoWarning: TemporalRef gap of 1. Timestamp gap of 0.033367 sec. ending at file offset 1033693231
VideoWarning: TemporalRef gap of 6. Timestamp gap of 0.200200 sec. ending at file offset 1033896454
VideoWarning: Timestamp gap of 0.033367 sec. ending at file offset 1033834607

Sequence Frame 13876(137-P) / Time 0:07:43 :
VideoError: Invalid Huffman code in non-intra MPEG2 block. MBA=4861(976,640)
Additional error(s) detected. Increase VerboseLogLevel in INI file for details.
FileInfo: Last video errors span 30 bytes at file offset 1047527322

Sequence Frame 13877(137-P) / Time 0:07:43 :
Info: End of MPEG2 sequence

Sequence Summary:

File Size Processed: 999.00 MB, Play Time: 00h:07m:43s
1920 x 1080, 29.97 fps, 17.40 Mbps (17.19 Mbps Average).
Average Video Quality: 70.00 KB/Frame, 0.28 Bits/Pixel.
AC3 Audio: 2/0 Channels (L, R), 48.0 kHz, 448 kbps.
Dialog Normalization: -31.0 dB
6 of 13877 video frames found with errors.
1 of 14470 audio frames found with errors.
44625 corrupted video bytes in file.
0.266933 seconds of video timestamp gaps.
0.192000 seconds of audio timestamp gaps.

End of Log

[RushMaster]

Anyone?

[Soopafresh]

Run it through Mpeg2repair > Then run the resulting file through Pvastrumento

[RushMaster]

pvastrumento never works bro. I click start and all it does is go forever and nothing happens. That program makes no sense at all. the time elapsed and time remaining never shows up either.

[Soopafresh]

I wasn't recommending Pvastrumento, it's just that you seemed to want to use it.


Run your file through Mpeg2repair

[RushMaster]

mpegrepair doesnt repair the files at all either.

[BJ_M]

the log indicates the files are corrupted.

use 'downloadthemall' and redownload the corrupted parts

[RushMaster]

I've tried redownloading the files and they appear to be the same way when I test the newly downloaded ones as well. I asked the original uploader of the files if his had any problems and he said his work perfectly fine. He is sending me an md5 checksum though to see if mine are really corrupt, then I'll have to figure out what to do after that.

What is downloadthemall?

EDIT: I can't use downloadthemall because the links on the page for the downloads of the files have to have a security code entered into each of them individually.

[Soopafresh]

Test this out. You MUST follow these directions and test only on 1 file.

1) Unrar/unzip file

2) Copy only 1 of your *.TS or *.TP files to be fixed into the same folder as Tsfix

3) Double click on fix.bat to run. Output file name will be called Output.ts or output.tp

tsfix%201.0.rar

[RushMaster]

Nope that didn't fix it either.

I just wanna say though, I'm really thankful for the fact that you went the extra mile to help me out on this one, even if I still never solved my problem, thanks a ton.

It's obviously just a case of a currupt files that has pieces missing, and there would be no logic in fixing something that doesnt exist right? I'm going to have to do a checksum on the files and see what the outcome of that is, and if my files are bad, then im going to have to obtain them somewhere else.