Damaged Mpeg2 file...

[tommy2k]

I converted this movie from my digital camcorder to Mpeg2 using TMPG. It all worked fine and i'm happy about it. After several months of beeing on my HD, the file got damaged due to a stupid mistake of mine. It is still playable but it skips some frames somewhere in the middle of the file. I dont care too much about this since it's just a holiday movie. The only problem is that i can't master this file anymore into Pinnacle Studio9 anymore. It says the file is damaged, which is true obviously. I know that this might be the wrong forum but is there any tool around that can fix this file. I know that i won't get the missing frames back but i just have to make it a descend Mpeg2 again....

[MoonDoggie]

The only program I know of that will do what you are needing is
called mpegrepair from PixelTools

http://www.pixeltools.com/MpegRepair.html


This will allow you to remove bad frames, It will demux the mpeg to
it's elementory streams then you will need to remux the files back
with a mpeg muxing tool such as Tmpge or mplex.
By the way, it does this without the need of re-encoding the video so
you won't experience picture quility loss becuase of an extra encode.

Hope that helps

Moondoggie

[toolmanx]

How in the heck did you get Pinnacle ver. 9 to work for you? I have had over 20 renderings that crash, usually after about half or more of the 4 hours it takes to render. The guy in India that gets paid fifteen cents an hour to help is way over paid. I got so frustrated after trying every suggestion in their FAQ and his e-mails that I deleted all the files and took the Dazzle 80 back to the store. It's a shame too because the capture device works great. The software stinks. If it failed and then could pick up where it left off, it would be salvageable, but it always fails and goes back to zero. I even pulled the side off my box and put a fan on the CPU because the FAQ said to. Selling people software that's not ready should be a firing squad offense. Pinnacle should make their stuff "freeware" until they get the bugs out.