What .ts files?

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Someone posted a video file with .ts extension, it won't play in any players I have. (obviously, I don't have the codec) searches here returned absolutely nothing, searches on google didn't really help eith. What is it?

thanks,
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ps. it's ALWAYS a pleasure that the original poster acts as if everyone in the world knows what .ts means. Since he's the only one that posts it, it must mean everyone in the world knows and uses it.

[Ripper2860]

It appears to be Digital Video Broadcast Transport Stream files, perhaps from DVB captures. I do not know what to do with those files, but apparently they must be converted to PS or Program Stream files which I believe are MPEG-2 files which can then be played or trans/re-encoded.

You might try this ...

http://www.offeryn.de/dv.htm#pvas

I've seen TS2PS referenced as a utility, but it appears to be a Linux only tool. I have no idea where to get it.

You may also try seeking out 1 or 2 DVB sites or user forums and see if they can be of help.

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thanks Ripper2860,
I downloaded PVAStrumento and gave it a try. unfortunately I got an illegal stream error. I'll look into DVBs for more tools, at least now I have something to go on!

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[BJ_M]

they are transport streams and windvd can play them ... powerdvd can not.


you can "pull them apart" to ES mpeg2 streams and audio (ussually ac3) using bbtools demux tool ... or honestech ts to program conversion tool (for single streams only , TS streams may have more than 1 video or audio file - then you must demux them)...

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Thanks a lot BJ_M! bbtools worked. It pulled out a video and a audio file. I was able to convert the audio to a wav file, but I wasn't able to do anything with the video file. I don't even know what type it is. .m2v? .vob? .mpg? It would play very slowly on my pc, since it's 1920x1080. The combination of dvd2avi then vfapi gave me an error that was unreadable. (the error was probably in japanese, so the dialog had ?????? instead of letters) Any idea what I can do with the video file or how to convert it?

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[BJ_M]

it is a mpeg2 elementary stream , Main profile - High Level (don't worry about that means) ...

what do you want to do with it ? you can load it in v-dub mod and convert it to something else (avi) or resize it and/or change the frame rate ..

you can load it into mainconcept or tmpgenc mpeg encoder and re-encode it to dvd ..

you can load it into dvd2avi and create a project file to be loaded into something else (not really nessessary) , you can use pulldown on it to remove pulldown .. you can mux it with tmpgenc mpeg tools and edit and re-encode it in vegas ... couple of other things can be done also .. converting it back to a transport stream is going to cost you though ....

if you have trouble playing this stream ... you may be using the powerdvd mpeg codec , the windvd and ligos mpeg codec will play HD mpeg2 ES streams ... the elcard codec also has no problems at all ..

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I want to convert it to a viewable format like divx, VOB or SVCD. But VDub says cannot open mpeg-2 video stream, tmpgenc says cannot open or unsupported. I just spent the last 2 hours learning how to write Avisynth script, and got it to load in VDub, but I'm getting a green bar on top and "misaligned" colors. (like ghost images but they're in the primary colors) I thought it was because the file is in YV12 format, so I converted to RGB, it didn't do anything. This is what I have on the script

Version()

LoadPlugin("c:\program files\avisynth 2.5\plugins\MPEGdecoder.dll")

ConvertToYUY2(mpegsource("c:\bb\d.mpv", -2, "raw"))

yea, it's 2 lines, but I've never used AVISynth before!

I tried loading it dvd2avi and created an project, but vfapi gave me that ???? error that I cannot read. I'm using dvd2avi to save and compress to divx directly, I'll see if that works out. This seem like the best option. But I do have to reprocess it in VDub to get the audio track in there.

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[BJ_M]

v-dub mod , not v-dub

a VOB btw , is just another form of a mux'd mpeg2 file ---

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well VDubMod opened the file right up. Any idea why? Now I'm curious.

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ps. I can't get an audio stream in VDM though. There's not "audio" menu like the regular VD

[BJ_M]

virtualdub mod is modified for mpeg2 .. virtual dub does not open mpeg files ..

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thanks for all your help BJ_M, that solved all the problems. now on to deciding what is an appropriate size to reduce this 1920x1380 monstrousity to. lol

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