Processing 'ts' files?

[Jim Ford]

Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this, but here goes anyway:

I can record to a usb stick on my satellite receiver and it saves the file with the extension 'ts'.

I've been doing this and encoding and editing them as AAC/AAV/MKV files, using 'Avidemux'.

It's actually not proven to be as straightforward as the above, as I seem to need to initially de-multiplex and then re-multiplex the files with 'ProjectX' and 'ImagoMPEG-Muxer'. (I'm unclear why I need to do this - I'm a 'noobie'!)

I now have a problem recording! The programme was very late and I just set it recording and went to bed. The memory stick filled with several files, the first one being with a straightforward 'ts' extension and the others numbered 'ts.001', 'ts.002' etc.. I find I can play these files, which appear as one on the satellite receiver, but I can't encode them as above.

How do I process these files to enable me to edit and encode them using 'Avidemux', please?

Jim

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Sounds like they have to first be joined...

[Jim Ford]

Hi!

Sounds like they have to first be joined...

I've just tried it (using 'cat') and it still doesn't work.

Thank for the reply.

Jim

[ale5000]

Have you tried to join them with HJSplit? http://www.hjsplit.org/

[dirk362]

Seems like these are .ts files split at a file size boundary (say 2Gb which is quite common based on legacy file system formats such as fat etc). You can either rename these to make them unique names as name1.ts name2.ts etc and then do your normal demux/remux via ProjectX/ImagoMPEG-Muxer (to sort out any small errors in the saved ts file from DVB), or more preferable would be to load these into TSMuxeR (GUI) and use that to Join these back to a single .TS file. You can then just process as normal.
Last obvious option would be to assume no errors in the TS file and just load direct into AviDemux and use File/Append to add each of the .001 .002 files etc.

[Blue_MiSfit]

DGIndex can handle MPEG Transport Streams fairly well, if I recall correctly. Pretend they're VOBs, and load them sequentially ;)

At least.. provided your TS files are MPEG-2 (probably). If you're using some fancypants new system that broadcasts in H.264, well then... you must either buy the DGDecNV tools, or use something else :)

Derek