"h264tsto" automates audio/video demuxing and MKV muxing

madshi · 2nd November 2006, 18:16

Code:

h264tsto v1.5, freeware by madshi.net

This tool can either demux video/audio to separate raw files.
Or it can remux video/audio into a Matroska (*.mkv) container.
h264tsto sourceFile [destFile] [-options]

Options:
-demux      demuxes video/audio streams to separate raw files
-videoonly  remuxes/demuxes only the video stream, ignores audio
-audioonly  remuxes/demuxes only the audio streams, ignores video
-24p        rewrites the destination MKV timestamps to 23.976
-25p        rewrites the destination MKV timestamps to 25.000
-30p        rewrites the destination MKV timestamps to 29.970
-no24p      don''t rewrite the destination MKV timestamps

Support input formats:
*.ts
*.m2ts
*.vob
*.evo
*.avi
*.wmv
*.mkv

The following software is needed:
(1) http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/
(2) http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkv...s.html#windows

Eeknay · 2nd November 2006, 19:30

Just tried this and it didn't mux the audio to MKV (video worked fine), is this intentional?

bond · 2nd November 2006, 19:42

well its a h.264 tool, no?

giandrea · 3rd November 2006, 00:41

Just being curious... where do you get TS streams with H.264 video? It seems to me they are HD channels. In the USA HD channels are encoded in MPEG2, in Europe there are just few HD channels available on satellite, they encode in H.264, but they are mostly testing channels.
just curious...

bob0r · 3rd November 2006, 04:39

http://en.kingofsat.net/hdtv.php

madshi · 3rd November 2006, 11:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eeknay

Just tried this and it didn't mux the audio to MKV (video worked fine), is this intentional?

Yes, it's intentional. The tool is about H.264 video streams, only. You can demux audio streams with Project X and mux them to the H.264 MKV with mkvmerge. Of course I could have added audio support, too, but then I didn't find a quick way to extract all audio languages. It would have been the default language, only. So I decided to handle video, only.

Quote:

Originally Posted by giandrea

Just being curious... where do you get TS streams with H.264 video? It seems to me they are HD channels. In the USA HD channels are encoded in MPEG2, in Europe there are just few HD channels available on satellite, they encode in H.264, but they are mostly testing channels.
just curious...

Here in Germany there are 3 free German TV stations broadcasting (from time to time) HDTV movies in H.264. Then of course there's German pay TV, also in H.264. Finally there is UK pay TV and the free BBC HD sender.

carlo_0000 · 3rd November 2006, 19:41

i tested it

it convert very good to mkv

but i can't still open it in megui

it say me

Avisynth script error:
directshowsource; i can't determine the framerate of the video, you must use the "fps" parameter

friends-fan · 3rd November 2006, 21:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by carlo_0000

i tested it

it convert very good to mkv

but i can't still open it in megui

it say me

Avisynth script error:
directshowsource; i can't determine the framerate of the video, you must use the "fps" parameter

That can be fixed by adding the fps=25 (for example) option in the avs script. Still will get you an out of sync mkv after encoding most likely...

carlo_0000 · 4th November 2006, 02:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by friends-fan

That can be fixed by adding the fps=25 (for example) option in the avs script. Still will get you an out of sync mkv after encoding most likely...

stil not working but the previeuw is gray

olso gray when playing avs with mplayer clasic

must be egain filter/codec problem

i try on a other computer , i think it works

wadim · 9th January 2007, 15:30

Thank you very much for this one, tried different ways and always got error format in mkvtolnix after and now it's ok

daWsOn_s · 10th January 2007, 01:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by madshi

Here in Germany there are 3 free German TV stations broadcasting (from time to time) HDTV movies in H.264. Then of course there's German pay TV, also in H.264. Finally there is UK pay TV and the free BBC HD sender.

Where are they transmitted?

bob0r · 10th January 2007, 03:14

http://en.kingofsat.net/hdtv.php

daWsOn_s · 10th January 2007, 14:12

Ok satellite tv

wiak · 28th January 2007, 20:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by madshi

In case you're interested, I was tired of having to use GraphEdit to demux the H.264 video stream from my TS recordings. So I've written a little tool which automates it:

http://madshi.net/h264tsto.zip

It's a command line tool. Here's the help output:

any eta on a version that can mux both video & audio?
its a little space of like 30GB when muxing to mkv
alsp 10GB for ts, 10GB for video tmp mkv and then 10MB for the mkv with sound

it should be easy

Ricey · 30th January 2007, 13:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by carlo_0000

i tested it

it convert very good to mkv

but i can't still open it in megui

it say me

Avisynth script error:
directshowsource; i can't determine the framerate of the video, you must use the "fps" parameter

Use ffdshow and it works

madshi · 10th February 2007, 12:11

Hi guys,

here's version 1.1:

http://madshi.net/h264tsto.zip

Here's the help text:

Code:

h264tsto v1.1, freeware by madshi.net

Usage: h264tsto srcFilename.ts destFilename.mkv|destFilename.h264

This tool can either demux the H.264 stream to a raw *.h264 file.
Or it can mux the H.264 stream into a Matroska (*.mkv) container.

Demuxing into a raw *.h264 file needs the following filters to be installed:
(1) Elecard or Cyberlink Demuxer (empgdmx.ax/CLDemuxer.ax)
(2) Dump (dump.ax, shipping with GraphEdit)

Muxing into a Matroska container needs the following filters to be installed:
(1) Haali Media Splitter
(2) Haali Matroska Muxer

Version 1.1 now also demuxes/muxes the audio tracks, if possible.
Recommended for demuxing more than one audio track is the Elecard Demuxer.
The Cyberlink Demuxer only offers the first audio track for demuxing.
If the format is unknown, the files are demuxed as "rawaudio/rawvideo".

The Haali Media Splitter doesn't support more than one audio track at the same time, so muxing into MKV is limited to one audio track at this point in time. If Haali adds support for all audio tracks, I'll update this tool accordingly.

P.S: Supported for demuxing is now also MPEG2 video, DTS etc, as long as the Demuxer filters support these formats.

madshi · 10th February 2007, 23:58

Just got note that Haali's "Simple Media Splitter" does offer all TS content as output pins in contrast to the "Media Splitter". So I've uploaded h264tsto version 1.2 already (same link as before). This version now muxes TS files to MKV with all video and audio streams.

Thanks to Haali for his great DirectShow filters!

Okraml · 11th February 2007, 13:35

Hi madshi,

can you write a modified version of the tool, that takes a .vc1 file (with file source async) -> elecard mpeg demultiplexer -> Matroska Muxer ?
In graphedit they connect, but only small files result in a successfull muxing. Bigger files make problems like http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121497.

Thanks in advance.

:-) Okraml

madshi · 11th February 2007, 14:54

Do you think doing it with a tool will work better than doing it in Graphedit? I did try to mux VC-1 into MKV already via Graphedit and it didn't work for me at all. So I somehow doubt that it will work with a tool. Basically h264tsto does the same thing Graphedit does, just automated...

Okraml · 11th February 2007, 15:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by madshi

Do you think doing it with a tool will work better than doing it in Graphedit? I did try to mux VC-1 into MKV already via Graphedit and it didn't work for me at all. So I somehow doubt that it will work with a tool. Basically h264tsto does the same thing Graphedit does, just automated...

I think there have been some h264-ts files that i couldn't transmux in graphedit, but with h264tsto.
With a small vc1 file i was able to mux it in graphedit, but not with larger files. In the linked thread you can also see, that with a trick i was able to mux larger files a little better (but only got 60mb files).
So i think a modified tool is worth a try (if its not to much work to implement).

:-) Okraml

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Eeknay Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 54	Just tried this and it didn't mux the audio to MKV (video worked fine), is this intentional?

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giandrea Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Italy Posts: 154	Just being curious... where do you get TS streams with H.264 video? It seems to me they are HD channels. In the USA HD channels are encoded in MPEG2, in Europe there are just few HD channels available on satellite, they encode in H.264, but they are mostly testing channels. just curious...

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bob0r Pain and suffering Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,337	http://en.kingofsat.net/hdtv.php

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carlo_0000 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 104	i tested it it convert very good to mkv but i can't still open it in megui it say me Avisynth script error: directshowsource; i can't determine the framerate of the video, you must use the "fps" parameter

9th January 2007, 15:30	#10 \| Link
wadim Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4	Thank you very much for this one, tried different ways and always got error format in mkvtolnix after and now it's ok

10th January 2007, 03:14	#12 \| Link
bob0r Pain and suffering Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,337	http://en.kingofsat.net/hdtv.php

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daWsOn_s Sandro Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Pescara, Italy Posts: 168	Ok satellite tv

10th February 2007, 23:58	#17 \| Link
madshi Registered Developer Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 9,140	Just got note that Haali's "Simple Media Splitter" does offer all TS content as output pins in contrast to the "Media Splitter". So I've uploaded h264tsto version 1.2 already (same link as before). This version now muxes TS files to MKV with all video and audio streams. Thanks to Haali for his great DirectShow filters!

11th February 2007, 13:35	#18 \| Link
Okraml Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 46	Hi madshi, can you write a modified version of the tool, that takes a .vc1 file (with file source async) -> elecard mpeg demultiplexer -> Matroska Muxer ? In graphedit they connect, but only small files result in a successfull muxing. Bigger files make problems like http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121497. Thanks in advance. :-) Okraml

11th February 2007, 14:54	#19 \| Link
madshi Registered Developer Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 9,140	Do you think doing it with a tool will work better than doing it in Graphedit? I did try to mux VC-1 into MKV already via Graphedit and it didn't work for me at all. So I somehow doubt that it will work with a tool. Basically h264tsto does the same thing Graphedit does, just automated...