Patch 1440x1088 H.264 file to 1440x1080 without re-encoding?

[Killer3737]

I'm trying to author a Blu Ray in Encore and it was all going well until I found two of my streams had the extra 8 lines of garbage/black from broadcast which Encore doesn't like and wants to re-encode them. One stream was MPEG2, One was H.264, both from HDTV broadcasts. I found a tool called 'HDPatch' to correct the MPEG2 file to 1080 without re-encoding it and Encore now accepts that file but I can't find anything to do the same with the H.264 file.

Upon googling I found TS Doctor which claims it can do it but upon downloading the trial I cannot for the life of me find out how to, it's either not available in the trial or I'm missing something.

So, anyone know if it's possible in TS Doctor or any other program?

[poisondeathray]

1920x1088 => 1920x1080 is possible with this patched ffmpeg build . 1440x1088 => 1440x1080 should be possible as well

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=152419

[Killer3737]

1920x1088 => 1920x1080 is possible with this patched ffmpeg build . 1440x1088 => 1440x1080 should be possible as well

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=152419

Tried that, strangely Windows said the output was now 1080 but MediaInfo said it was still 1088 as does Encore and it therefore still doesn't like it. I'm not sure if I used the correct syntax though, i'm not great with CMD. I went with

ffmpeg -i filetofix.ts -vcodec copy -acodec copy -vbsf h264_changesps=crop=0:8 fixed.ts

Is that right or not?

[poisondeathray]

CMD line Looks ok . If it didn't work for encore you can try h264info on demuxed stream

If that doesn't work, you might have to re-encode

[Killer3737]

I tried h264info and it crashes as soon as I press start, even if I don't enter in any changes. Tried with some other 264 files and no problem so this file is obviously the problem.

It's possible there may be other issues with the stream, IIRC I recorded from a test HD channel in 2006 so it may not be correctly encoded/formatted as a proper broadcast would be. I'll try some other 'fix' tools on the file first and if that doesn't work I'll just exclude it from my project.

Thanks for the help.

EDIT: Ran the file through VideoRedo and h264info now works, output file according to Mediainfo:

Video
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12
Bit rate mode : Variable
Maximum bit rate : 20.0 Mbps
Width : 1 440 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : MBAFF

But Encore still doesn't like it.

[poisondeathray]

Yes, there might be something wrong with it

Another one you can try Ts4Np (it's a modified version of TsRemux) , it has a crop 1088i -> 1080i checkbox for remuxing

[Baldrick]

I added Ts4Np 0.82 under the TsRemux tool page under other download .