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The telemetry was poor so much of the original Falcon 9 sea landing video was scrambled & pixellated, with only 1-2 frames clear.
The membership at NASASpaceFlight.com includes a great many MPEG-Ninjas. After the landing footage was open sourced by SpaceX for repair they set about bit-level reconstruction of the footage.
Elon Musk and his team have contributed more info, MPEG parameters etc. and much encouragement. ffmpeg and other software have been put through a real wringer, along with custom code and scripts.
This could lead to a new MPEG repair tool.
After a TON of work here's a side-by-side of the work so far.
Now we can see the landing legs deploy, the engine ignition, the.plume blasting away the water and touchdown.
Fixed footage on the left, raw on the right.
The membership at NASASpaceFlight.com includes a great many MPEG-Ninjas. After the landing footage was open sourced by SpaceX for repair they set about bit-level reconstruction of the footage.
Elon Musk and his team have contributed more info, MPEG parameters etc. and much encouragement. ffmpeg and other software have been put through a real wringer, along with custom code and scripts.
This could lead to a new MPEG repair tool.
After a TON of work here's a side-by-side of the work so far.
Now we can see the landing legs deploy, the engine ignition, the.plume blasting away the water and touchdown.
Fixed footage on the left, raw on the right.