Speed Problem with MyHD TS files

[kelliott72]

I recently purchased a MyHD card and am quickly filling up my hard drive. I'd like to be able to convert my TS files to xvid with AGK, but I seem to be having a problem. After encoding with the default settings, the picture looks great, but seems to play at about twice the speed it should and I get no sound. One of the files I'm attempting to convert is 720p and initially I had chopped out commercials with HDTVtoMPEG2, but after that TS conversion failed, I tried the original TS with the same results.

I see an Exception message saying "Number of frames is very different from expected"

Both the original and the edited version of the TS play fine in the MyHD software, VLC and with HDTVPump.

Has anyone seen this before or know how to fix it?

TIA!
First time poster,
K

[CWR03]

I can't see anything at all without your logfile. :)

[kelliott72]

I can't see anything at all without your logfile. :)

Oops, sorry, noob mistake. Here it is -

[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] AutoGK 2.20
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Job started.
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Input file: S:\Video\Lost - Season 2\test\Lost_S02E02.0000.ts
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Output file: S:\Video\Lost - Season 2\test\Lost_S02E02.0000.avi
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Output codec: XviD
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Audio 1: PID 0014, Private AC3 Audio Stream
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Subtitles: none
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Format: .AVI
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Target size: 350Mb
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Custom audio settings: Original
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Started encoding.
[10/18/2005 9:38:19 PM] Demuxing and indexing.
[10/18/2005 9:58:54 PM] Processing file: S:\Video\Lost - Season 2\test\Lost_S02E02.0000.ts
[10/18/2005 9:58:56 PM] Source resolution: 1280x720
[10/18/2005 9:58:56 PM] Found NTSC source.
[10/18/2005 9:58:56 PM] Source aspect ratio: 16:9
[10/18/2005 9:58:56 PM] Color correction enabled.
[10/18/2005 9:58:56 PM] Analyzing 60fps HDTV source.
[10/18/2005 10:04:11 PM] Percentage of 3:2 dupe patterns: 32.78
[10/18/2005 10:04:11 PM] Dupes are not found.
[10/18/2005 10:04:11 PM] Output will contain 61694 frames
[10/18/2005 10:04:13 PM] Audio1 size: 120,734,234 bytes (115.14 Mb)
[10/18/2005 10:04:13 PM] Overhead: 171,520 bytes (0.16 Mb)
[10/18/2005 10:04:13 PM] Video size: 246,095,846 bytes (234.70 Mb)
[10/18/2005 10:04:13 PM] Running compressibility test.
[10/18/2005 10:04:13 PM] Writing the following script to S:\Video\Lost - Season 2\test\agk_tmp\Lost_S02E02.0000_comptest.avs
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LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\ColorMatrix.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\RemoveGrainSSE3.dll")

movie = mpeg2source("S:\Video\Lost - Season 2\test\agk_tmp\Lost_S02E02.0000.d2v")
cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
fixed_aspect = 1
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height)
input_par = (input_par > 1.4) || (input_par < 1.25) ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
out_width = 640
out_height = round(float(out_width) / input_par)
hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
RemoveGrain(mode=2)
ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",mmx=true,hints=false)
SelectRangeEvery(300,15)
===========================================================
[10/18/2005 10:12:41 PM] Duration was: 8 minutes 22 seconds
[10/18/2005 10:12:42 PM] Speed was: 6.14 fps.
[10/18/2005 10:12:43 PM] Compressibility percentage is: 63.12
[10/18/2005 10:12:43 PM] Chosen resolution is: 608x352 ( AR: 1.73 )
[10/18/2005 10:12:43 PM] Predicted comptest value is: 69.47
[10/18/2005 10:12:43 PM] Running first pass.
[10/18/2005 10:12:43 PM] Writing the following script to S:\Video\Lost - Season 2\test\agk_tmp\Lost_S02E02.0000_movie.avs
===========================================================
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\ColorMatrix.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\RemoveGrainSSE3.dll")

movie = mpeg2source("S:\Video\Lost - Season 2\test\agk_tmp\Lost_S02E02.0000.d2v")
cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
fixed_aspect = 1
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height)
input_par = (input_par > 1.4) || (input_par < 1.25) ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
out_width = 608
out_height = round(float(out_width) / input_par)
hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
RemoveGrain(mode=2)
ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",mmx=true,hints=false)
===========================================================
[10/18/2005 11:34:43 PM] Duration was: 1 hour, 21 minutes 57 seconds
[10/18/2005 11:34:43 PM] Speed was: 12.55 fps.
*************************************
EXCEPTION: Number of frames is very different from expected. Found only 91271 frames.
*************************************
[10/18/2005 11:34:43 PM] Job finished. Total time: 1 hour, 56 minutes 24 seconds

[laserfan]

I don't know what caused this problem kelliott72, nor have I seen the "speedup" problem you describe, but I can tell you I routinely do this with my MDP-130 captures using AGK, and in fact my target size for a 1hour show (edited-down to 43 minutes after taking commercials out) is the same--about 335 to 350Mb.

Is yours an MDP-130? Are you running v1.66? Under Transport Stream capture Detail options, have you checked "Capture SubChannel Only"?

You should start there, w/latest software & SubChannel selected. Altho many swear by HDTV2MPEG2, I have not had any luck with it--I don't know why. I also tried MPEG2Repair and ProjectX, but only VideoReDo Plus works for me. Since VRD+ has a 15 day free trial period, you might want to grab it and run QuickStreamFix on your Lost episode, and perhaps edit it again from the original cap this time using VRD+. Maybe you don't even want to try it, since if it works you're faced w/a $50 decision, but I find it works wonderfully well all the time on my ATSC captures.

What I'm guessing is that there were some serious problems in the xmission of Lost somewhere, that's causing AGK to get, well, Lost itself.

BTW the AGK conversion to Xvid takes a very long time, around 4hours IIRC. About half that using Divx6, but Divx6 looks terrible (to me) vs. Xvid. Oops, I should add that my conversions are usually from 1920x1080, maybe these take much longer than 720p!!!?!!

[kelliott72]

Is yours an MDP-130? Are you running v1.66? Under Transport Stream capture Detail options, have you checked "Capture SubChannel Only"?

Hey laserfan, thanks for the suggestions. Actually I do have an MDP-130 and do have SubChannel Only selected but am currently running v1.65. I've run a few more conversions both 1080i and 720p, all of them seem to be working fine. The strange thing is, that at this point the only ones that aren't converting properly are every single one of the Lost episodes I have recorded. I'm going to upgrade to 1.66 and try again this week. If you're really bored, maybe you can try recording/converting and see if anything strange happens on your pc. Who knows, maybe during the conversion I just need to chant 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42..... :)

Thanks again!

[nnigam]

I did some lost episodes using myhd100 card with no problem like you are having. I use avisynth and vdubmod to mux them back again.

[len0x]

There is a bug in latest AutoGK in handling 60fps sources, that I fixed quite some time ago but never released a new version since then...

[Nrmf]

thank you for a wonderful app