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ptitboul
4th April 2011, 20:40
Dear all,

since Transport Stream is made for streaming, I don't understand why it seems so difficult to simply cut TS files.
Of course, remuxing TS in another container needs to ensure that everything is synchronized, but cutting should be simply cutting the file.

I have made experiments and cutting a TS file by removing an arbitrary number of 188-bytes chunks results in another file which is for example playable with VLC and which can be reencoded with Handbrake.

Therefore, I think that there could be a TS cutter which has a GUI to help to visually define the cut points (e.g. a GUI similar to ProjectX) and that just uses these cut points to split the file. How is it that I did not find such a tool?

Ghitulescu
4th April 2011, 20:52
ts doctor, smartcutter

ptitboul
4th April 2011, 21:11
TS doctor does much more than that. According to its description, it can also delete streams, repair, ...
Smart cutter does reencoding around end points, accepts many other input formats than TS, etc.

I don't know a tool that just does visualisation and plain cutting of the file.

netmask
6th April 2011, 05:31
Any reason why you can't use ProjectX - it has an optional split function in the Presettings.

Ghitulescu
6th April 2011, 05:32
AFAIK PjX can only SD and not HD.

netmask
6th April 2011, 05:46
Oh yes in Europe you use H264? - down here both SD and HD TV is MPEG2 with AC3 audio so ProjectX works quite nicely.

Ghitulescu
6th April 2011, 08:30
TS doctor does much more than that. According to its description, it can also delete streams, repair, ...
Smart cutter does reencoding around end points, accepts many other input formats than TS, etc.

I don't know a tool that just does visualisation and plain cutting of the file.

It cuts, you asked for cutting, it's simple - yes it costs, but you didn't mention that it should also be freeware.

SmartCutter is also small, cuts (as its name says), and costs.

jfcarbel
29th December 2011, 08:15
Has anyone compared this Smart Cutter (http://www.fame-ring.com/smart_cutter.html) to VideoRedo TVSuite H.264 (http://www.videoredo.com/en/index.htm)?

Atak_Snajpera
30th December 2011, 20:39
did you try transport stream packet editor?