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Did anybody record the VAULT show last night? I did but something in the file is corrupted so I can only play it on my PVR but I can't move it anywhere else, including not burning it to DVD. If anyone has the MPG (or the TS, I can use those as well) please contact me and we'll work out a way to send it to me. Note that my raw recording is 6GB so it is a pretty big file. Thank you.
I recorded ABC HD last night and my copy has a fault too. For the first 1min 46 seconds from when Rage starts the bitrate is through the roof, averaging around 20Mbps and going as high as 47Mbps. The first video starts playing but is super fast and is accompanied by the audio of the second video. At around 1min 46sec the video and audio syncs up and the bitrate drops down to an average of 4.3Mbps.
I've removed the first 1:46 from the episode and will upload the .ts file to my requests folder.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmE5hleMzCmIqVTpHh_QjOB9Xi19
Requests > Reggie Rocket
Grant
Thank you very much! If I miss one song, so be it, I'm still really pleased to get the rest.
If there's anything I can do in return, just let me know. But just so you know, unless it is specifically requested, I only record "rage" in SD. I can record in HD, I just choose not to for "rage".
I recorded in SD as I don't record in HD. MY SD copy had ZERO faults in it at all.
I edited it this afternoon and just kept what I wanted, if you want what I have kept I can do a copy for you.
Sorry I don't have it all.
Hey, Jason, you wouldn't have either of the first two songs, would you?
OVERSOUL 7 The Real Thing
DONALD WASN'T Abbatak (The House Abba Built)
I'd especially love the second one. Although I've always thought it was a bit rubbish, I bought it when I found it at K-Mart for $1 six months after it had been released. The thing is, in the time since then, nobody has heard of it. It isn't on YouTube. I asked at a music forum that has thousands of active members worldwide including many in Australia. In a place where every thread gets half a dozen replies just to say "No idea", my thread got no replies!
Here's the only match on YouTube. And that was made and uploaded by ME when a friend of mine (who hadn't heard of it either, despite knowing almost every song ever from 1977 to 2000) found it for me at a record fair after asking if there was anything I was looking for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcWlcxIonrI
Reggie Rocket - I ended up leaving the .ts file "as is" so both videos are intact in my upload, they're just sped up. If you have some advanced video editing software you may be able to slow down the frame rate and sync it up with the audio from your CD copy?
OVERSOUL 7 The Real Thing
DONALD WASN'T Abbatak (The House Abba Built)
I'd especially love the second one. Although I've always thought it was a bit rubbish, I bought it when I found it at K-Mart for $1 six months after it had been released. The thing is, in the time since then, nobody has heard of it. It isn't on YouTube. I asked at a music forum that has thousands of active members worldwide including many in Australia. In a place where every thread gets half a dozen replies just to say "No idea", my thread got no replies!
Here's the only match on YouTube. And that was made and uploaded by ME when a friend of mine (who hadn't heard of it either, despite knowing almost every song ever from 1977 to 2000) found it for me at a record fair after asking if there was anything I was looking for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcWlcxIonrI
I caught the first two videos in 4:3 SD (my 16:9 recording had some pixelation, so I'm hoping to get a copy of that from someone else - but I don't want ABC HD, as the watermark is more-intrusive, and it's SD material anyway) - but will wait to get a 16:9 copy of the first video shown, as it may have been stretched/moved to the right slightly (it's difficult to tell from my 4:3 recording).
I've uploaded the video to YouTube Reggie Rocket:
Now here's the thing with my recording: It is there and complete (although I have not played back the entire recording, so there might be a glitch later on it it). Follow me here and hopefully I can explain this in a way that makes sense.
I recorded it with almost 15 minutes leeway either side as I'd read on here about VAULT shows sometimes starting early and/or ending late. So far I've been lucky with all but one recording. Anyway, there is a glitch of some kind near the end of "Call The Midwife", which aired before "rage".
Our recorder is an LG which can record PDTV to a hard disk or DVD, purchased as it has AV inputs which you can also record from. The AV in records in MPEG4 whilst broadcast TV is recorded in TS in whatever it is broadcast in. You can then transfer the recordings via USB2 to a flash drive or external/portable hard drive and then open up in your video editing software of choice. But the recorder adds no metadata to the .ts file, instead making its own files to store that information. Windows itself has a hernia if you want anything other than a file size. Even the file's date is always 1st January 1970.
Now, because of the glitch in "Call The Midwife", our regular software, Video ReDo, it crashes. If the file does open, Video ReDo claims it goes for 26 hours, then crashes anyway. Playing the file in VLC, it says it goes for 5hr 30. But when it hits the glitch in "Call The Midwife" it shows 2hr 30 has passed, although on screen it is still playing the scene with the glitch in it. These are the only programs we have that will open .ts files (although VLC won't open our recorder's raw .TS files with sound, only edited .ts files output by Video ReDo).
If this information is of any use to anybody, let me know and if it is useful, I'll upload my raw recording somewhere. It is 6.1GB.
I recorded it with almost 15 minutes leeway either side as I'd read on here about VAULT shows sometimes starting early and/or ending late. So far I've been lucky with all but one recording. Anyway, there is a glitch of some kind near the end of "Call The Midwife", which aired before "rage".
Our recorder is an LG which can record PDTV to a hard disk or DVD, purchased as it has AV inputs which you can also record from. The AV in records in MPEG4 whilst broadcast TV is recorded in TS in whatever it is broadcast in. You can then transfer the recordings via USB2 to a flash drive or external/portable hard drive and then open up in your video editing software of choice. But the recorder adds no metadata to the .ts file, instead making its own files to store that information. Windows itself has a hernia if you want anything other than a file size. Even the file's date is always 1st January 1970.
Now, because of the glitch in "Call The Midwife", our regular software, Video ReDo, it crashes. If the file does open, Video ReDo claims it goes for 26 hours, then crashes anyway. Playing the file in VLC, it says it goes for 5hr 30. But when it hits the glitch in "Call The Midwife" it shows 2hr 30 has passed, although on screen it is still playing the scene with the glitch in it. These are the only programs we have that will open .ts files (although VLC won't open our recorder's raw .TS files with sound, only edited .ts files output by Video ReDo).
If this information is of any use to anybody, let me know and if it is useful, I'll upload my raw recording somewhere. It is 6.1GB.
My files affected this way would have silly file durations, like 26 hours something, or even 0:00 or 0:01.
The way I have overcome it, when no longer having access to the source files to rip them again, is to use the program 'DVDVob2Mpg'. This extracts the mpg from the .vob file (no compression is involved). The mpg that is extracted always has the correct track duration. I can then add the file to an editing or DVD authoring program if I want to.
Perhaps you need to find something similar for whatever format the raw file is, so you can extract it as an mpg (or whatever). I'm pretty sure the program I use was free to download.
I recorded it with almost 15 minutes leeway either side as I'd read on here about VAULT shows sometimes starting early and/or ending late. So far I've been lucky with all but one recording. Anyway, there is a glitch of some kind near the end of "Call The Midwife", which aired before "rage".
Our recorder is an LG which can record PDTV to a hard disk or DVD, purchased as it has AV inputs which you can also record from. The AV in records in MPEG4 whilst broadcast TV is recorded in TS in whatever it is broadcast in. You can then transfer the recordings via USB2 to a flash drive or external/portable hard drive and then open up in your video editing software of choice. But the recorder adds no metadata to the .ts file, instead making its own files to store that information. Windows itself has a hernia if you want anything other than a file size. Even the file's date is always 1st January 1970.
Now, because of the glitch in "Call The Midwife", our regular software, Video ReDo, it crashes. If the file does open, Video ReDo claims it goes for 26 hours, then crashes anyway. Playing the file in VLC, it says it goes for 5hr 30. But when it hits the glitch in "Call The Midwife" it shows 2hr 30 has passed, although on screen it is still playing the scene with the glitch in it. These are the only programs we have that will open .ts files (although VLC won't open our recorder's raw .TS files with sound, only edited .ts files output by Video ReDo).
If this information is of any use to anybody, let me know and if it is useful, I'll upload my raw recording somewhere. It is 6.1GB.
http://www.cypheros.de/tsdoctor2_e.html
Unfortunately its not free, there is a trial but I am not sure what the limitations are.
Edit : Just read there is a full 30 day trial, presumably thats means what it says.
Yes, I have both the first two videos Reggie, I definitely kept them two.
http://www.cypheros.de/tsdoctor2_e.html
Unfortunately its not free, there is a trial but I am not sure what the limitations are.
Edit : Just read there is a full 30 day trial, presumably thats means what it says.
I used it on an old recording of ABC3 from March 2018 but it couldn't fix it - but it really tried! Mind you, I'd given up on that recording ages ago. I only didn't delete it in case it was a corrupt patch on the hard drive.
If anybody needs a copy of that VAULT, I'm editing the file at the moment (playing it as I go to check for signal dropouts) and the whole thing in .mpg is 4.52GB - so far the first three songs are fine.
http://www.cypheros.de/tsdoctor2_e.html
Unfortunately its not free, there is a trial but I am not sure what the limitations are.
Edit : Just read there is a full 30 day trial, presumably thats means what it says.
I used it on an old recording of ABC3 from March 2018 but it couldn't fix it - but it really tried! Mind you, I'd given up on that recording ages ago. I only didn't delete it in case it was a corrupt patch on the hard drive.
If anybody needs a copy of that VAULT, I'm editing the file at the moment (playing it as I go to check for signal dropouts) and the whole thing in .mpg is 4.52GB - so far the first three songs are fine.
I might even download it again for another look :)
Just to let you know, I'm performing a cleanout of my computer in order to install a new C and D drive (and Windows). I have checked your link and your recording is still there and so I am deleting it from my computer. If I download something like this, I usually keep it for several months in case the person I got it from needs a copy sent back.
Anyway, I still have my unedited SD copy (which I am still in the middle of editing - up to Absent Friends with Wendy Matthews, so far so good) which I am happy to put up if anybody needs.
My recording is a 16:9 "pillarbox" recording. Which is the way I've decided to keep my videos as, for example, one of the songs by Tall Tales And True wasn't exactly 4:3 - the picture came right up to the edge of the ABC logo.
[Edit] By the way, if anybody is interested, my YouTube link above includes the B-side called "The Day Donald Wasn't" which is one of the most lyrically bizarre "90's alt rock" songs I've ever heard in my life. I used to really hate it when I first bought it, but I kept on playing it every day until our record player broke. I was 12 at the time. In the video description is every detail copied off the back cover. Enjoy?
