From .TS to .MKV

[Caple]

Hi there.

I recorded a TV show on my STB, using an external HDD, and it's a TS file. I'd like to put it on a MKV container, as it's almost 3GB smaller. I believe it's due to the file's header and stuff like that. But I think it doesn't matter.
Anyway, I demuxed the TS file using TSRemux and have a .264 and a .ac3 file.
MediaInfo tells me the file is 29.970fps.
I'm trying to mux it as MKV using MKVMerge and it asks me to specify fps. I set it to 29.970 and it creates a MKV file with double the lenght.
I tried with 60fps and it seems the lenght is right, but the audio is out of sync.
I tried MKVMerge with the delay option, but it shows me around 80 or 90min to finish. Don't want to wait all that to see if it's ok. Something is wrong.

Anyway... does anyone know why I have to set if as 60fps when MediaInfo tells me it's 29.970fps?
And why the audio gets out of sync?

Thanx.

[Caple]

Well, I managed to create the file with the audio delay. But it doesn't matter if I choose 60fps or 59.94fps, the audio starts ok and loses sync in the end of the file.
So I guess the audio should be corrected too.
Any ideas?

[The Mariner]

You don't need to go to the trouble of demux/remux unless you edit the source .ts to remove commercials etc. In any case, you shouldn't need to muck around with fps settings.

I use Freemake Video Converter to convert .ts files to .mkv all the time. Open freemake & navigate to your folder with the .ts in it. You may not see the file until you change the 'Files of type:' from 'All Supported Files' to 'All Files (*.*)'.

Click on the 'To MKV' icon down the bottom, select the preset you like or make your own and you are away. I use:

video - 750kbps, max. 720x576 resolution, 2-pass conversion
audio - mp3 @ 128kbps

Hope this helps.

[Caple]

But like that I'll be reencoding the video.
I don't wanna do that.

[The Mariner]

Oops... sorry, I thought you wanted to transcode. My mistake.

[davexnet]

Try GDSMUX, included with Haali splitter. See the "known issues" here:
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/FFmpegSource#Known_issues

[Caple]

Try GDSMUX, included with Haali splitter. See the "known issues" here:
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/FFmpegSource#Known_issues

I tried this software once and it didn't do the job. It was another source, other files...
Now it did the job!
Thanx a lot!

[davexnet]

Sounds good - thanks for the feedback.