bad section in mpeg

[marigold522]

I have a movie I downloaded that plays fine except for about 2 minutes into the movie, the audio/video become "choppy". This lasts for about 8 minutes, then the movie continues to play without further problems. Is there a way I can repair this bad section without having to slice it out of the movie? Here is some of the file information:

Video:
frame size: 352x288, 25000fps
# of I,P,&B frames: 3982/19848/47539
Average Bitrate: 1141Kbps(140KB/S)
Video Codec: mpeg video codec

Audio:
format: 44KHz, stereo, 224Kbps, layer 1
# of frames 109286(total 78062k)
Audio Codec: Morgan Stream Switcher

If more information is needed please let me know. I am new at video editing and really appreciate the help!

[Lost Pup]

it is hard to tell by choppy what you mean. sometimes when i play a movie on my older computer it is choppy. not enough horsepower to do it. but i assume since it only last for a few minutes that there is problems internal. The problem with that is unlike a dvd you rent that has all the data, once some idiot encodes it and doesnt check quality, all you have to work with is what is there. The shrunk data. So choppy will be choppy no matter what you do.

Is the video choppy or the sound or both ?

I have never bothered to code anything with morgan, because being stupid and only speaking english, it doesnt do me any good to put different audio tracks in the same file. And i alsways like to get the best picture with 96-128 bit sound. Anyway - there really isnt much you can do. you may be able to smooth it a bit, or even certainly you can cut it, but that kind of defeats the point. Once something is gone, its gone, and you cant re-create it without the original. kind of like you donwload a song in 96 bit, and convert it to wav and then encode it at 320. it is still the quality of 96 bit. you only have what you have to work with.

of course - i could be completely off base, as i am old school video editing. hardcore and not new wave. there is an explosion of new tools and methods everyday. http://www.vcdhelp.com has a repository of question you can search, and you may try there to see if anyone has a similiar problem and what the outcome was.

[marigold522]

Thank you, Lost Pup. When I say "choppy", I mean it sounds like someone is turning the sound on and off and the video starts and freezes several times. I did a simple-demultiplex in tmpgenc and looked at audio and video separately and it occurs in each part. I even removed the bad section to see if I could do anthing with it but concidering I don't know what I'm doing, I didn't get very far(except at one time I managed to create a 3 gig avi out of it). Thanks for the links and the input!

[Lost Pup]

i was going to reccommend divx antifreeze, but i am not sure if that will help. google has it, and i think vladd does also