Hi djaction,

Are you able to post the full Movieinfobatch info into this thread?

Thanks :)

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/Volumes/Action's DJ Drive/Video/80's/Grandmaster Flash - The Message.mp4
Length(s) 363.16 (Samples: 363160, Timescale: 1000)
Size 142.26 MB
Movie Tracks:
VideoType: avc1, 768x576
Component 1) ireP, H.264 (Perian) v.30006, Decompresses video stored in H.264 format.
Component 2) lppa, H.264 Decoder v.40004, Decompresses images stored in the H.264 format.
Component 3) xppa, AVA_HD v.40001, Demonstration AVA_WRAPPERHD Decompressor.
Component 4) yppa, AVA_HD v.40001, Demonstration AVA_WRAPPERHD Decompressor.
Audio Tracks:
AudioType: mp4a (48000kHz, 16bit)
Component 1) lppa, MPEG-4 Audio v.10009, MPEG-4 Audio Decompressor component
Frame rate: 25.00 per second
Keyframes: 76 (min: 26, max: 200,avg: 118.3)
This file supports internal metadata
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/Volumes/Action's DJ Drive/Video/New Video/(83) Rick Ross Feat NeYo - Super High [DJ Intro - Dirty].mp4
Length(s) 259.53 (Samples: 23357648, Timescale: 90000)
Size 107.38 MB
Movie Tracks:
VideoType: avc1, (
AVC Coding) 640x360
Component 1) ireP, H.264 (Perian) v.30006, Decompresses video stored in H.264 format.
Component 2) lppa, H.264 Decoder v.40004, Decompresses images stored in the H.264 format.
Component 3) xppa, AVA_HD v.40001, Demonstration AVA_WRAPPERHD Decompressor.
Component 4) yppa, AVA_HD v.40001, Demonstration AVA_WRAPPERHD Decompressor.
Audio Tracks:
AudioType: mp4a (44100kHz, 16bit)
Component 1) lppa, MPEG-4 Audio v.10009, MPEG-4 Audio Decompressor component
Frame rate: 29.97 per second
Keyframes: 324 (min: 1, max: 25,avg: 23.9)
This file supports internal metadata
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I have tons of mp4's that are doing this if you need more examples..

I wish SL would create metadata files for my mp4 files :-( Instead it rewrites the whole mp4 files. You should be thankfull ;)

I guess I would be if it was consistent. But it only does it for some files :/

Hi djaction,

Scratch Live should write be able to write the metadata to these files. When Scratch Live tries to write to the file it tests the file header first, if this fails it can't write to the file and so will create a .xml and .ovb file instead.

Where are you getting these video files from? If you're ripping them yourself, which program are you using?

Would you be able to attach one of the video files you are having this problem with to this thread for us to look at?

Files I rip myself I have no problems with.. I use mediacoder (pc) and handbrake (mac).. :/

The ones that are giving me problems were from various pools and sites like SmashVidz and StrictlyHits.

I'll attach that grandmaster flash track. My only guess is that somewhere between 1.9.2. and 2.0 Serato corrupted the tags/metadata of some of my files..

Hi djaction,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

The file you've attached does indeed have a corrupt file header, hence why Scratch Live can't write the tags to it. This would most likely be due to the way they were encoded. You could try re-encoding these videos in Handbrake, this should solve this.

Hi, djaction. Apologies for the late progress on this, but we've just found that Scratch LIVE is not currently able to read 64 bit encoded meta data from mpeg 4 files.

The 64 bit encoding will happen when the "Large file size" option is checked in Handbrake, so the simplest solution right now is to uncheck this option when encoding videos. This option is only useful for encoding massive videos that are greater than 4GB.

We'll update the preset and queue up a task to have this functionality in a future SSL.

Thanks for the bug report.