Smart Media Cutter

[skeskinen]

[QUOTE=noemi7;2791365]Thanks a lot for quick response!

Thank you for your feedback!
I'll upload a file. TS is not "non modern" container, and is still widely used by i.e. PVRs, no mention that quite similar M2TS is used by Blu Ray which some people like to edit as well.

4. You can't define action for forward and back buttons, for example "move to the next I frame".
This one I can also add pretty easily. Any suggestions for what the "actions" should be? Or is mostly just the I-frame seeking?

I-frame is enough for me: Setting > General > Playback & under small step as an option. More programming would be required to make it as in VRD:

Another request: may you please add an option to define a disc or folder where to look up for a video under File > Open? When the application is closed and project is not saved, when re-opened it always looks for video in Windows pre-defined "video" folder.

Thanks!

Thank you for the test file. It is actually very helpful. It did load, but it was just very slow. There was a really dumb bug performance issue in the .ts file loading. It will be fixed in the next release and opening this file went from +30s to <2s on my machine.
There's also another more serious issue with this file you uploaded, which is that this is kind of open-GOP encoded h264 file (no IDR slices for almost 3 minutes) and I haven't actually seen that before. I have implemented open-GOP smartcutting for h265, so hopefully the h264 implementation can work pretty much the same way. So hopefully that fix can also make it to the next release.

I'll add the default folder setting. Should be pretty straight forward.

I'll think about what I can for the seeking settings. At least I will add the I-frame seek option to the settings, so you can bind any of the 3 seek buttons to that. I might also add the option to have different seek amounts with ctrl/shift modifiers.

[Stez]

I haven't looked at the software yet but I'm certainly interested. One thing that's pretty important to me is how it handles .TS files created by terrestrial receivers from free-to-air broadcasts. These are often malformed in various ways and something that VRD does a fantastic job with (via its Quick Stream Fix function) is repairing malformed files that other tools won't touch. How does Smart Media Cutter go with less than perfect input files?

[skeskinen]

I haven't looked at the software yet but I'm certainly interested. One thing that's pretty important to me is how it handles .TS files created by terrestrial receivers from free-to-air broadcasts. These are often malformed in various ways and something that VRD does a fantastic job with (via its Quick Stream Fix function) is repairing malformed files that other tools won't touch. How does Smart Media Cutter go with less than perfect input files?

Hi! I've been working with noemi7 to fix a bunch of .TS file compatibility issues. The support is already much better in the new 2.0.3 version. And I'll keep working on it to make it even better.

I'm not sure what Quick Stream Fix does exactly, so I cannot say if SMC has it's equivalent... But if you have any specific files that fail SMC cutting, you can send them to me with https://smartmediacutter.com/upload-test-files/

Besides the improved TS file support, 2.0.3 has:

- Fixed .srt export to skip cuts and adjust the timing of the subtitles based on cuts
- Added option for default opened folder for media files
- Added option to hide the playback controls
- Added more seek controls, like seek to keyframes option
- Added frame type display, with picture types and NALs type, GOP information
- Added setting to control audio track height
- Various transcript view performance improvements
- Added feature to collapse audio tracks you don't care about to save UI space

I already started work on the next version, which is going to have one click commercial skip option (on top of the existing black frame detection) and more content creator focused "AI auto remove bad takes" function.

I'm also working on a demo video that shows the new tools for frame accurate cutting, like the keyframe and GOP boundary visualization tools and the keyframe seek tools.

[Stez]

Hey, thanks for getting back to me. I do actually have an example of a dodgy .TS file that nothing will read properly (including SMC and even the receiver that created the file) until I run VRD's Quick Stream Fix on it. The only issue is that it's a 3.5 Gb file and your upload facility says max 600 Mb.

[skeskinen]

Hey, thanks for getting back to me. I do actually have an example of a dodgy .TS file that nothing will read properly (including SMC and even the receiver that created the file) until I run VRD's Quick Stream Fix on it. The only issue is that it's a 3.5 Gb file and your upload facility says max 600 Mb.

I increased the max file limit to 4GB. Can you try now?

My suspicion is that the Quick Stream Fix is actually doing something very simple, and if I get something to test with, I can implement it for the next release

[Stez]

I'm uploading that file now. It's actually a 95 min recording from a DVB-T tuner but all the tools I've tried (SMC, VLC etc) report it as being 15 mins and then fall over when trying to seek within the stream. I've also got the corrected file produced using VRD's Quick Stream Fix that SMC is much happier with if you would like me to upload that too.

[skeskinen]

I'm uploading that file now. It's actually a 95 min recording from a DVB-T tuner but all the tools I've tried (SMC, VLC etc) report it as being 15 mins and then fall over when trying to seek within the stream. I've also got the corrected file produced using VRD's Quick Stream Fix that SMC is much happier with if you would like me to upload that too.

I notice that the uploaded file is only 700MB but you said that it's supposed to be over 3GB.

I updated the test file upload page to handle large files in little chunks. Now it should be much more robust when uploading large files.

If you don't mind reuploading the corrupted file, that would be nice. Because right now I don't know if the 700MB file is actually fixable or not.

And sure, if you can, also upload the file fixed by Quick Stream Fix and I'll take a look at what it did to it.

Thank you so much!

EDIT: Sorry, if you see this, can you try one more time. The deployment to production server didn't run properly so it was still using the old code... Now it's for real updated...

[Stez]

I tried to upload both files just now and both fell over with network errors after 15 to 20 mins of uploading. I've emailed you a screenshot of the upload page showing the status as it appears to me.

Also, there looks to be something odd about your website that requires me to disconnect my VPN in order for the site to accept the connection. Adding smartmediacutter.com to my VPN bypass list doesn't solve that issue. Are there any background URLs that your website build uses that also need to be routed around VPNs?

[skeskinen]

Sorry about the upload not working. Thank you for sticking with me! I'll try to analyze the files you sent and compare it against the VRD fixed file.

Maybe there is something there that I can see. If not, I'll wait for another broken TS sample to pop up and then implement this feature a bit later.

Also, there looks to be something odd about your website that requires me to disconnect my VPN in order for the site to accept the connection. Adding smartmediacutter.com to my VPN bypass list doesn't solve that issue. Are there any background URLs that your website build uses that also need to be routed around VPNs?

There shouldn't be any background URLs. It should be pretty simple VPS website and I haven't done anything to prevent VPN usage or anything like that.

Maybe it's dns lookups that are failing when the VPN is active? You could try running

nslookup smartmediacutter.com

with VPN on/off to see if there's a difference.

The only other thing that comes to mind is that it's my webhost doing the blocking. I'll look if there are any settings that I could change.

[Stez]

Thanks for the DNS suggestion - turns out the VPN provider was doing DNS filtering as a "security option". Turning that off has solved the problem.

I've now uploaded both files to SwissTransfer for you to access from there. I've sent you an email with the details.