Encoding incorrect time periods

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Rainbowserpant
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Encoding incorrect time periods

Post by Rainbowserpant »

I have been using Handbrake for a few years (thank you very much developers for a brilliant program) however for the last few days the following issue is happening and I am currently unable to encode my files as I usually would.

I encode recorded tv (wtv files usually between an hour to 6 hours long) into smaller 3-7 minute m4v files with Handbrake.

I always encode via the 'seconds' option (as I watch the original source wtv file and note what time points I want to encode the smaller files to).

At the moment Handbrake for some reason is encoding out of time and not actually the time or period of seconds that I specify?

It makes it impossible to encode the sections that I want because the output file just doesn't match the time I have selected?

Occasionally also the encode only lasts a few seconds and the output file is only a few kb and not playable.

I am using Windows 10 Home version 1607 on i5-3570k CPU 3.4GHz, 8G ram.

The problem started about 3 days ago, I was using Handbrake version '0.10.2-x86_64-Win_GUI' then updated to version '1.0.7-x86_64-Win_GUI' and the same problem is still continuing?

There are no error messages displayed and the actually output files are encoded perfectly except the incorrect time range is encoded?

The most recent few activity logs are below via dropbox link:


https://www.dropbox.com/s/bmjrc5eymfwau ... 0.txt?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pewzkw6gt49e9 ... 0.txt?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pj2btgyhjt4e3 ... 4.txt?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6w3hb9893patt ... 6.txt?dl=0


Thank you in advance for any assistance.
Woodstock
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Re: Encoding incorrect time periods

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[17:54:10] sync: video time went backwards 65 ms, dropped 1 frames. PTS 55605
[17:54:10] sync: video time went backwards 65 ms, dropped 1 frames. PTS 36000
[17:54:10] sync: video time went backwards 65 ms, dropped 1 frames. PTS 47803
[17:54:10] sync: video time went backwards 65 ms, dropped 1 frames. PTS 86400
[17:54:10] sync: video time went backwards 65 ms, dropped 1 frames. PTS 122400
[17:54:10] sync: video time went backwards 65 ms, dropped 1 frames. PTS 134203
[17:54:10] sync: video time went backwards 65 ms, dropped 1 frames. PTS 172800
[17:54:10] sync: video time went backwards 65 ms, dropped 1 frames. PTS 208800
[17:54:10] sync: video time went backwards 65 ms, dropped 1 frames. PTS 220604
Your video source has typical issues from recorded broadcast video - it doesn't "flow" continuously, but jumps backward from time to time to fill in any possible drop-outs. Tools like VideoRedo can fix this for you, and they have a free trial that you can try to see if it fixes the issue.
Rainbowserpant
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Re: Encoding incorrect time periods

Post by Rainbowserpant »

Hi Woodstock. Thanks for the advice, VideoRedo works great.
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JohnAStebbins
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Re: Encoding incorrect time periods

Post by JohnAStebbins »

Any chance you could provide a sample that causes this problem? I'm curious what the root cause is and would like to investigate a bit.
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