Is the mpeg-2 transport stream HD or SD video?

[coody]

I do not know whether the mpeg-2 transport stream is the HD or SD video. Is the mpeg-2 transport stream = .m2ts = .mts = HD video or the mpeg-2 transport stream is just SD video?

[poisondeathray]

I do not know whether the mpeg-2 transport stream is the HD or SD video. Is the mpeg-2 transport stream = .m2ts = .mts = HD video or the mpeg-2 transport stream is just SD video?

It can be either

A transport stream is just a "container" . It can hold SD or HD material , with different compression

The fact that you have a transport stream bears no information as to whether the actual contents are SD or HD

[hech54]

GSpot

[aedipuss]

what stream? try mediainfo on it. if it's 480p or lower SD - above 480p HD.

[edDV]

As said an MPeg2 transport stream container can hold SD or HD resolutions. The codec within the packetized transport stream can be MPeg2, h.264 or other.

MPeg2 or h.264 codecs can be SD or HD, interlace or progressive.

Some common consumer level transport streams:

TOD - SD MPeg2

HDV/XDCAM - HD MPeg2

AVCHD - HD h.264

ATSC/DVB broadcast - MPeg2 SD or HD (DVB can be h.264)

TS/MTS/M2T are common continous transport stream extensions used for broadcasting or linear recording to tape or file.

M2TS is a random access version of a transport stream intended for flash media, hard drive or Blu-Ray players. M2TS codecs can be MPeg2, h.264 or other.