McPoodle - SCCTOOLS V1.2 Bug?

[slk001]

McPoodle,
I was using version 1.2 of your closed captioning tool set, and ran into a problem with using the "-a" option. I used:

ccasdi -a NEW_CC.TXT NEW_CC.SCC

and got the following error:

UNABLE TO READ FROM FILE: NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY AT CCASDI.PL LINE 96.

Using the same command line minus the "-a" worked okay (however, I need to adjust the timecodes, because I entered DISPLAY times not the BEGIN DECODING times).

[McPoodle]

I made a mistake when I added the "-a" and for whatever odd reason I called it "-p" (for "Push the timecodes around" maybe?).

Anyway, I changed CCASDI to use "-a" correctly. Download the corrected version at http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCC_TOOLS/ccasdi.exe.

[slk001]

Thanks a bunch!

[dgwak]

McPoodle,

I am having a hard time getting the negative time offset to work with 1.2 version. I tried RAW2SCC, CCADJ and so forth but it won't do negative offset using -o-00:00:00:00 command...It's always positive offset...

[McPoodle]

It seems to work for me. For example, first take one of my sample files and create an SCC file with a one hour offset:

raw2scc -o01:00:00:00 dvd.bin dvd.scc

If you examine dvd.scc in a text editor, the first line of data has a timecode of 01:00:00:00 (it usually starts with 00:00:00:00). Now, use ccadj and a negative offset:

ccadj -o-00:15:00:00 dvd.scc dvd2.scc

Now if you look at dvd2.scc, the first timecode will start at 00:45:00:00.

The one thing you need to remember with negative adjustments is that the adjustment will be thrown away if it would create a negative timecode in the resulting file, so you can't use the argument -o-00:02:00:00 on a file when its first timecode is 00:01:50:00.

[dgwak]

McPoodle,

It is weird...when I did the same thing you did on the sample, I get the positive offset.

First I did..

"raw2scc dvd.bin dvd.scc -o01:00:00:00"

It created dvd.scc with first timecode of 01:00:00:00.

then I did...

"ccadj -o-00:15:00:00 dvd.scc dvd1.scc"

The timecode starts at 01:15:00:00!

So what's up...I downloaded your 1.2 version (it shows it is v1.2 when I use the command "ccadj /?" at dos prompt)

[dgwak]

I just found a way to do the negative offset.

I had to add 2 hours to the original then subtract 2:12 seconds to offset by 12 seconds....

Strange, but it works that way. A possible bug?

[McPoodle]

OK, I finally managed to reproduce it. The corrected versions of raw2scc, ccasdi, and ccadj are available for download here (http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCC_TOOLS/DOCS/SCC_TOOLS.HTML).

[dgwak]

Thanks McPoodle,

It worked! What would we do without experts like you :) :D