Theory question here.
Is it possible to splice in the x264/h264 video of TN1’s SSE with the blank (or maybe registered) frames necessary to sync with GOUT-synced audio tracks…without re-encoding any of the non-blank frames?
I recall using Quicktime 7 pro to cut and paste together video clips that were the same resolution, codec, bitrate, etc…losslessly and selecting “pass through” when exporting to a new video file. I wonder if there’s a slicker way to do this losslessly because that was like 8 years ago (Pretty sure Quicktime 7 is free from Apple now, but I used Windows XP SP3 up until 2009 and have no idea if that’s true for other operating systems)
I imagine you’d have to demux the video track from the mkv and put it in an mp4 container before Quicktime could even open it, but I haven’t the system resources, hard drive space, etc to give it a shot myself. Figured I’d run it by the forum in case anyone here was working on a mac and hadn’t thought about it.
- encode blank frames to same settings as TN1
- demux SSE video to .x264
- remux SSE video into .mp4 container
- split SSE video losslessly into chunks that bookend where missing frames need to be inserted (no idea which program could do this on a PC or Mac, besides Quicktime 7 itself)
- merge those SSE clips with blank frames from step 1
- export with “pass through” in quicktime
- remux to mkv & test sync with the GOUT-synced until
- lossless re-hash of TN1 SSE
Thoughts?