#9 GOP fault indicator, retest feature & index file
When a GOP fault occurs during the tydemux process, the
displayed message indicates that the gap is too large to
repair and the program locks up. There is no graceful way
to exit the program other than to shut it down as a non-
responsive app in Task Manager. This is an issue over and
above what I am requesting but I thought it was worth a
mention.
The feature I'd like to see is to have a method of detecting
where the fault occurs in relation to either a specific start or
ending cut point. There is no way of determining where the
erroneous cut has occurred without extensive trial and error
to find it. Some sort of indicator that shows the progress of
the processing phase based on the timeline of the video file
would be extremely helpful in locating the offensive cut
point. Another useful indicator would be to highlight the cut
point in question in the cut list window to identify the fault.
As it currently stands, the only method of testing to see if
the error has been corrected is to adjust the cut point and
process the entire file again, or at least enough of it to
ensure that the file has been processed past the cut point in
question. This involves reloading the ty file and creating an
entirely new index from scratch, loading the marker file,
making the correction, and processing the file again. This
can get quite tedious and time consuming.
It would be beneficial if an index file could be created the
first time the ty file is loaded and then automatically loaded
each time the ty file is loaded from that point on rather than
having to re-index the ty file every time.
A method of processing just a select portion of the ty file
would also be helpful in testing cut points to ensure there
are no GOP errors. Perhaps a portion could be
automatically selected for testing that would check a
segment beginning say 10 GOP headers prior to a start cut
and ending 10 GOPs past and end cut. There could be a
user selectable parameter to set the points before and after
a cut for testing.
To summarize:
1. GOP fault indicator to flag the offensive cut point.
2. Ty file index file to speed up repetive loading of the
same ty file.
3. Ty file segment processor for testing cut points.
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Submitted by: captain_video
email: jdnorris@comcast.net
OS: Win 2K (no SPs installed)
TyStudio: 0.5.0 Beta 1
Tivo: Philips DSR6000 DirecTivo; 2.5Xtreme & Kraven's
2nd upgrade; TurboNet, mfsstream, tytools, mfs_ftp