How does 95 minute program grow to over 17 hours?

[Phototaker]

I recorded a TV show using my PC tuner card. The recording was about 100 minutes long. Since the program had no adds I used VideoReDo3 to trim off start & end & create a 95 minute MPEG2 file. When I opened the file in HB I noticed that it said the program was 17hours & 40 minutes long. Even though I knew something was seriously wrong I told it to encode anyway just to see what would happen. I ended up with a serious error & a log report. I tried pasting the log onto this email but I end up with a message the I can only have 1000000 caracters in an email & this posting had the log to this posting has ovr 1800000. How can I send the log? Would just the start & end bit be OK?

Any idea where the error occurred & can it be fixed? How do I prevent it happening again.

[TedJ]

You can either post the log to a pastebin site (we have our own) or ideally you can trim some of the repeated errors from the log to allow it to fit.

[Phototaker]

Here is beginning of the log. The whole log is 10 times the size I indicated previously.


Waiting for the log to be generated ...
# Windows GUI 0.9.5 2011010300
# Running: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
# CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
# Ram: 12286 MB
# Screen: 1920x1200
# Temp Dir: C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\
# Install Dir: C:\Program Files (x86)\Handbrake
# Data Dir:
C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\HandBrake\HandBrake\0.9.5.3728

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Query: -i "F:\From Tuner Card\Lake Eyre.mpg" -t0 -v
[09:42:40] hb_init: checking cpu count
[09:42:40] hb_init: starting libhb thread
HandBrake 0.9.5 (2011010300) - MinGW i386 - http://handbrake.fr
8 CPUs detected
Opening F:\From Tuner Card\Lake Eyre.mpg...
[09:42:40] hb_scan: path=F:\From Tuner Card\Lake Eyre.mpg, title_index=0
libbluray/bdnav/index_parse.c:157: indx_parse(): error opening F:\From
Tuner Card\Lake Eyre.mpg/BDMV/index.bdmv
libbluray/bluray.c:960: nav_get_title_list(F:\From Tuner Card\Lake
Eyre.mpg) failed (0x1849e60)
[09:42:40] bd: not a bd - trying as a stream/file instead
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.1.3
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: failed to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
[09:42:40] dvd: not a dvd - trying as a stream/file instead
[09:42:40] file is MPEG DVD Program Stream
[09:42:40] hb_demux_ps: not a PS packet (e9574812)
[09:42:40] hb_demux_ps: not a PS packet (9c010b9c)
[09:42:40] hb_demux_ps: not a PS packet (7389331d)
[09:42:40] hb_demux_ps: not a PS packet (c0709ebd)


And here is end bit of log.

[09:42:44] hb_demux_ps: not a PS packet (4011682d)
[09:42:44] hb_demux_ps: not a PS packet (6648d6cb)
[09:42:44] hb_demux_ps: not a PS packet (c9711000)
[09:42:44] hb_demux_ps: not a PS packet (03a2800f)
[09:42:44] scan: could not get a decoded picture
[09:42:44] scan: 1 previews, 720x576, 25.000 fps, autocrop = 0/0/0/0,
aspect 16:9, PAR 64:45
[09:42:44] Title is likely interlaced or telecined (0 out of 1
previews). You should do something about that.
[09:42:44] scan: title (0) job->width:720, job->height:400
[09:42:44] libhb: scan thread found 1 valid title(s)
+ title 1:
+ stream: F:\From Tuner Card\Lake Eyre.mpg
+ duration: 17:36:50
+ size: 720x576, pixel aspect: 64/45, display aspect: 1.78, 25.000 fps
+ autocrop: 0/0/0/0
+ chapters:
+ 1: cells 0->0, 0 blocks, duration 17:36:50
+ audio tracks:
+ subtitle tracks:
+ combing detected, may be interlaced or telecined
HandBrake has exited.

[Deleted User 11865]

Please update to HandBrake 0.9.6 first.

[Phototaker]

Actually I had .96 installed the first time I tried this encode. So I tried going back to .95 but the results were the same. I forgot to mention that in my first post.

[Deleted User 13735]

In VideoRedo, run it through "Quickstream Fix" first before trimming and saving as mpeg-2.
See if that helps; it will make your file PS-friendly.

[Phototaker]

The Quick stream cop didn't work. I suppose the problem must lie with either Windows or VideReDo becaue files ripped from DVD's will encode OK. It appears to only be the opes recorded by PC tuner card that creates problems. Perhaps the PC tuner cars software has a problem?

[Deleted User 13735]

I'm pretty sure the fault isn't with VRD. I use it a couple of times every week to prep PVR files (of different types) for HB and have seen nothing as unusual as you describe.

Post your original file's properties using MediaInfo -- it may give some clues.

[Phototaker]

I see that there is a new version of Mediainfo today which I have downloaded & installed. You ask for the file's original properties. Which tab do you mean. I haven't see a log facility in this application?

[Deleted User 13735]

You right-click on the file icon and select MediaInfo from the context menu.

[Phototaker]

I hope that this is what your after.

'Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 753 MiB
Duration : 23mn 50s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 4 417 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Duration : 23mn 50s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 073 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 10 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.393
Stream size : 695 MiB (92%)

Audio
ID : 192 (0xC0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Duration : 23mn 50s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 43.7 MiB (6%)

[Deleted User 13735]

Nothing unusual about your file. It's generic mpeg-2 like you'd find on a dvd.
Sorry I can't be of further help.