HDTV to H.264?

[choirislife923]

is there a way on a PC to convert a HDTV stream (either .TS or program stream) to H.264/AVC? HDTV is taking up way too much space on my hard drive.

[Baldrick]

you can always use dgindex to open the ts and frameserve the video to any h264 encoder.

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=759#759 (instead of an editor you just open the video in the encoder like the mainconcept h264 encoder)

[Soopafresh]

Celtic_Druid has a recent build of x264 for VFW

Look for x264vfw.exe

http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd.asp?dir=/x264


H264 is still pretty new, and while the codec has made some big strides even in the past few months, it still has a way to go. Makes sense to encode your big TS files into it, but carefully check the resulting file.