Patch field order flag directly, without rewriting file?

[duhmez]

There is a post here somehwere. Smoeone mentioned a software that can patch the top field first flag directly on the file, unlike restream which rewrites the entire file. What is this program called?

Needless to say, i encoded a very large amount of videos with cce and "upper field first" checked, which ironically, must NOT be checked for upper field first content. I'd like to kick in the nuts the moron programmer that came up with that idea)

So I have very many mpv streams that I have to remove the top field first flag from, restream can do it but it would take forever.

[lordsmurf]

Restream is your only option. The field order flags are located throughout the file, not just at the start of it.

[adam]

ReStream and pulldown.exe are the only programs I know of which can do this. They have to patch every single frame in the entire movie and rewrite it to a new file. There is simply no way of getting around this. If you read from one drive and write to another it takes no longer than the time it takes normally transfer files from one to the other. You can do a 2 hour movie in about 2 mins if you have fast drives. If you are reading and writing from the same drive than its going to take longer.

You are going to have to live with the length of the process, patching every frame takes time.

If you read the CCE manual it should explain how the top field first function works. I agree its not the most intuitive way of doing, but that's why it pays to read the manual first.

[duhmez]

Aye, reading manuals is good indeed. thx for the tips. Knowing that pulldown can do it is GREAT. I can script that...

I hate gui's for repetitive tasks.

Can pulldown do this without pulling down? Or will it automatically recognise that my files are 29.970 and completely ignore the pulldown?

[adam]

Pulldown has an option for nopull which will keep it from adding the pulldown flags. Also you said you don't like Gui's for repetitve tasks, but the gui for pulldown.exe works in batch mode. Just make your settings before hand and then load all your files at once. No need to script it, and there's no way you could do it any faster than that.

[duhmez]

I did not know the gui for pulldown could do a batch. (I have only been using pulldown.exe by itself with batchfile. I drag the fle onto the batch and it creates the output.
I stick this batch on my quicklaunch

pulldown %1 %1.32.mpv
Then I just drag the mpv file onto it and blammo, file gets created. Do a bunch at once and walk away (Takes long time doing unch all from same drive, but that's OK I walk away let it finish)

Batch gui sounds neatthough, I will check it out!