Hi Richard B,

Sorry to hear your having issues with video files in Scratch Live and Video-SL.

Scratch Live 2.3.3 has a refactor of the MP4 TAG Library and this has resolved a number of issues that were present in 2.3.1 with video files.

If a file is deemed corrupt in Scratch Live 2.3.3 it is because it is malformed and does not meet the standard for that container file. You may be able to play these in Scratch Live or other media players but you will need to re-enocde these files correctly if you don't want them to show up as corrupt in your Scratch Live library.

You can re-encode these files using Handbrake and the Video-SL Preset for Handbrake that has been created to automatically set the recommended format and codec for use with Video-SL.

Have a look at this link wich includes the Handbrake link and the link for the Video-SL Preset for Mac.

serato.com

NOTE: The TAGs written in Scratch Live 2.3.3 are NOT backwards compatible and will not be visible in earlier versions of Scratch Live.

You could attach a couple of the files that are being deemed as corrupt to this thread and I will have a look at them here.

Anthony

Hello Anthony,

Here is a link to a file. RAR are you going to download and watch videos that are in taint mode.

It is certain that I could re-encode with handbrake but I find that I lose the quality and also my file weighs 1/3 of its original space ...

Girlicious
65 MB before encoding
after encoding 24 MB

I find it strange ...

www.lesproductionsdmre.com

Good Day!

Hi Richard B,

I'm downloading the file and will have a look at it here. At this stage the download is telling me it is 868MB ?

I will let you know once I check the file.

Open the files in Mpeg Streamclip, and 'save as' a new mp4.

The newly saved versions will work absolutely fine.

Tag changes made afterwards are saving too.

Sorted.

Hi Richard B,

Not sure what you thought you were linking me to but that link is corrupt.

It was a rar file with a few videos in it Anthony. They were old Xtendamix videos and the tags were definitely corrupt.

Resaving in Mpeg Streamclip without re-encoding did the trick.

Don't worry Richard B, I won't be keeping copies of your files... I could never play videos with such massive chryons and Canadian ringtone text numbers on them in the UK... Can't believe Xtenda had chryons like that!

You should take the link down though, to make sure the whole world doesn't download your folder!

@phatbob

Thanks for that, the download didn't complete here.

I started to re-encode my old files with HandBrake. It's been just 30 hours I spend over there but it does not matter.

The majority were old files but I found some in the recent batch so I thought it was amazing.

Regarding the link, it is now off. We made ​​test to find the error so it's normal to send as many files to find the cause. But I thought it was a shame to have to re-encode as many files because of a basic acquisition scripts.

Thank you for your help and if I find something more, I'll report you.

Did you realise what I was getting at Richard?

You don't need to re-encode those files.

Just doing a 'save as' with Mpeg Streamclip keeps the video intact but creates a new file structure which means the new copies are fine.

It only takes a few seconds for each file and doesn't degrade the quality of the video in any way... ;-)

@ phatbob

Thanks mate. Hopefully the process you have described is clear enough :)