We talk of an Incomplete Repair when a damaged file, once repaired, is significantly shorter than expected.
The worst case is a void repaired movie!
Identify Incomplete Repairs
If the repaired movie is less than 90% of the size of the damaged movie, we have an incomplete repair.
You can easily check it, looking at repair results. It says Inconsistent, and reported duration and size are significantly below damaged file ones.
Possible causes:
- Large sections of the damaged file contain no media data. (example: alien data)
- Large sections of the damaged file contain media of a different family (example:XDCAM instead of DVCPro HD)
- RepairMovie is not able to identify all the media. Only part of the media is used.
- Presence of hint tracks containing RTP packets used for media streaming (redundant data that can be stripped from movie)
Troubleshooting:
Verify with Treasured:
- Treasured will not be able to preview in all locations if the damaged file contains large sections without media data.
- Treasured will find two or more media types inside the file if several families are present.
- If Treasured can preview correctly all locations, then probably RepairMovie should be improved.