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Old 28th July 2018, 16:29   #21  |  Link
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I have ton's of BMDV folders coming from a Panasonic video camera. I would like to parse the timestamp of each recorded clip from the clpi files. (I know the date of each recording, but not time.)

I'm trying to identify possible byte addresses of that possibly stored timestamp within the clpi files by comparing clpi files from the same day versus comparing clpi files from different days vs from different years. (I'm using "vbindiff" to make the differences visible)

Addresses that look more different the farther apart two clips are should be good candidates for timestamps.

I'm documenting my findings here, maybe they will be useful for others too:

0x17 & 0x1B: single bytes that always have different values, 0x1B seems to be equal to the value of 0x17 plus 4.
0x39 - 0x3B: 3 bytes always different, didn't find a pattern yet.
0xE2 - 0xEA: Most clips: ASCII "00001M2TS" where the number is counting (and is always the number in the filename+1), Those clips have a 0x01 at address 0xDD. Clips with a 0x00 at 0xDD don't have this ASCII string. Some of the clips without ASCII string have value 0x00F6 instead of 0x0106 @ 0xE & 0xF. Those files are missing 0x10 bytes between 0xC3 & 0xEF. So for those clips 0x10 must be subtracted for any address higher than 0xEF for the value to match the discription.
0x100 - 0x105: Clips on the same day mostly only vary on 0x101 & 0x103 - 0x105, clips from different days also vary in 0x100.
0x119 contains the 0x30 described by others above as coding for aspect ratio at address 0x109 (which is the address of this 0x30 for clpi files without the ASCII string mentioned 3 lines above.)
0x146 - 0x147, 0x151 - 0x153, 0x15B: more changes. I can't see any patterns here..

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I have ton's of BMDV folders coming from a Panasonic video camera. I would like to parse the timestamp of each recorded clip from the clpi files. (I know the date of each recording, but not time.)
Maybe try AVCHDInfo ...
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Old 28th July 2018, 18:41   #23  |  Link
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There's no need to guess or reverse-engineer; the bluray specs are readily available online if you search for them (yes, free copies).
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Old 28th July 2018, 22:04   #24  |  Link
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oh thanks, I'll check it out.
update: hmm, this seems to be windows only.. doesnt work with mono..
And I did search for specs of those clpi files, this thread was the only thing I found.

UPDATE: yess! that worked! With wine AVCHDInfo.exe can extract Timestamps for each frame of an m2ts file, so it doesn't need the clpi files to get that info but only the video file itself
UPDATE2: ahh, and the MPLS2JSON.exe tool shows me that I've been looking for a non existent needle in the haystack, no timestamp infos in there

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There's no need to guess or reverse-engineer; the bluray specs are readily available online if you search for them (yes, free copies).
Where, please?
According to the official specs site, I need to have these books and a license just to use the perishing logo (see Authoring House Logo Usage) section at the BDA Licensing office

It doesn't stop there either, as I also need the BD-RE2 specs to cover any Java issues - most of the good information on BD-J is long since taken down (probably because Netflix & Amazon use a very similar system on their pay per view models) and even HD Cookbook site is history these days.

So if you could kindly point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated
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