Description
I recently came across a file that has two problematic frames in the middle of it. The file was mostly just 4:3 NTSC, but there were two problematic frames in the middle that were being parsed as 4:3 PAL. Upon further investigation, these PAL frames were actually just error frames, probably recorded in when the recorded in by a faulty camcorder or recording unit. I wanted to find a way to package just the non-problematic portions of the video file into a single file. However, since the errors occurred in the middle of the tape, packaging using the gui would result in three video files (2 working, and one error.
I reached out the @dericed and got this advice:
dvpackager -e dv input.dv
that should make your 3 files by just chopping the dv into pieces
then do
cat part1.dv part3.dv > output.dv
then drop that output.dv file into DVRescue and package to MOV as normal
This method worked. An alternate method was also suggested, however this didn't work:
I guess there's another trick were you could open the dvrescue xml and delete the middle pal reference, so like
<frames ntsc>
<frame1/>
<frame2/>
</frames>
<frames pal>
<frame3/>
<frame4/>
</frames>
<frames ntsc>
<frame5/>
<frame6/>
</frames>
to
<frames ntsc>
<frame1/>
<frame2/>
<frame5/>
<frame6/>
</frames>
then rerun dvpackager and it will just run according to the edited xml.
This returned a single file that appears to be the correct duration, but would freeze during playback at the point where the error frames would have been.