Convert .ts to .avi

Another solution. In two steps:
1- Change the file extension ==> .ts becomes .avi
2- Encode using "PocketDivXEncoder" (an excellent freeware encoding tool!).

Example: with PocketDivXEncoder, a 225MB .ts file becomes 90MB .avi. But you can also specify the compression rate you want!

To download PocketDivXEncoder:
https://www.commentcamarche.net/telecharger/tv-video/18069-pocketdivxencoder/

I hope this helps!

Video format conversion

Hello,

So, am I the one who skipped crucial steps or are some people looking for complications?
Especially when I read that some convert .TS to .MPG (unnecessary step since it is already an MPEG2 encoding), and the extension is just a container.

I see that for some it takes more than an hour overall, whereas for me, in the simplest scenario, for 2 hours of recording, which is 1.2 GB, I convert .TS files to .AVI (Divx) in 40 minutes (Vista, Core2Duo 7200@2.53Ghz, 4GB RAM).

I use TotalVideoConverter and only that one (sure it's paid, but you can do the same thing with MediaCoder)

First of all, I noticed that if I play the ORIGINAL video in Media Player Classic I have playback stutters, is that why you use an MPEG timecode fixer? Well, the issue disappears in Windows Media Player. But once converted, no more issues at all.

Another thing to note during the conversion, if we keep the original size of 544x576, we end up with a converted file squished in the width. After checking, we need to correct that by using the following dimensions instead of 544x576, we should use 768x576 and the appearance will be the same as during the playback of the .TS file (strange this thing).

Process:
1. I manually change the extension of the .TS file to .MPEG (because it's actually an MPEG file in a container)
2. I open it with TotalVideoConverter.
3. I select the use of the DirectX9 decoder and not the internal one which is slower (even under Vista, I presume it will take the one from DirectX10)
4. I choose "High Quality".
5. Among the choices, I take MS AVI > DivX (or whatever we want among the choices).
6. I choose the destination folder
7. I change DivX settings for Audio by setting the MP3 frequency to 44100Khz instead of 48000Khz
8. I change the Video Bitrate which originally can be over 2000 or even 3000 to 800 (that's fine for a DivX, we can use software to calculate the exact bitrate for the size of a CD if we want but personally I store on HDD so I don't care much about the exactness of the output file)
9. I modify the aspect by using dimensions of 768x576 instead of 544x576 and I will have the same appearance as the original file.
10. If we want we can choose the precise start and end of the output file in case you had ads at the beginning or the end. (except cut the ads in the middle)
11. I start the Conversion and have a small coffee or a large one for the 40-50 minutes of waiting (depending on the duration of the recording, of course)
12. That's it :D.

For ads after what to say, it’s super simple, VirtualDub, we cut the ad parts, we save without reconversion just directly and that's it!

I hope this helps.

PS: this works very well for me, I emphasize that I am not saying that it works on all PCs and for all recordings, I couldn't test this thoroughly especially for the aspect correction that seems to give erroneous values to the .TS file causing a squished aspect to the converted file without resizing.

You can also convert it using VLC's transcoding options: File / Stream Assistant

I found a software that converts .ts to mpeg or vob
VideoRedo (paid software :-) and then you can just reconvert it to avi...

1- You change the file extension ==> .ts becomes .avi
I am a novice in computer science and I would like to know what you mean by changing the file extension so that a .TS file becomes .avi. How do you do that? Thank you in advance.

Hello,

There's this tutorial on Linux: http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=163729

My method for converting a .ts stream from Freebox to .avi:
1) Demultiplexing to M2V and AIFF with MPEG Streamclip
after easily removing ads
(free except for the MPEG-2 playback module for QuickTime at €19.95)

2) Converting to DVD with Movie Gate Lite
(also free and fast as there is no re-encoding of the MPEG file)

From there, you can either:
3-1 - put multiple movies on a DVD with Toast
3-2 - convert your DVD to .avi with D-Vision 3

Advantages:
Audio delay is quite rare, but just in case, you can easily sync it with MPEG Streamclip,
Movie Gate allows for automatic cropping which lets you encode only the movie without the black bars.

Apart from the inevitable stream interruptions from the Freebox, the quality of the result in .avi is TOP notch.

Disadvantage: (only for some)
You need a Mac.

My experience with the Freebox

Freebox HD (.ts) to DVD : http://rohr.surlenet.net/spip.php?article405
ProjectX to demultiplex the .TS stream with timecode error correction (The important thing for audio/video synchronization)
Mpeg2Schnitt to cut out the ads
IfoEdit to generate DVD-compatible files

Freebox HD (.ts) to Dvix (.avi) : http://rohr.surlenet.net/spip.php?article406
MPEG2Repair to fix the timecode (The important thing for audio/video synchronization)
DVBCut to cut out the ads in .ts
And MediaCoder, the ultimate tool, to encode in Divx

AdslTV & Mencoder : http://rohr.surlenet.net/spip.php?article408
The crazy option is to start an automatic Divx encoding at the end of the recording with Mencoder.

The solution I found:
download SUPER
(a software that works on Windows) and follow the relatively simple instructions to convert .ts files from the Freebox to xvid or divx in an .avi container.
Advantage of the avi (which is admittedly a crappy capsule from Microsoft): it is readable by the Freebox, it is readable by a Mac, it is readable by a PC. The same reasoning applies for xvid/divx.

A few facts related to the topic:
the Freebox HD does not see the extensions .mpeg, .mp4, .wmv, .mov
according to my tests, it recognizes: .avi and .ts
otherwise, see the table below (some of the items indicated do not work in my opinion: I have never managed to get an .mkv or .wmv to work)

Compatibility: image formats
JPG O
GIF O
BMP O
TIF N
PNG O
PCX N

Compatibility: audio formats
MP3 simple O
MP3 VBR O
MP3 Pro O
MP3 multichannel O

AAC simple N
AAC VBR N
AAC SBR N
AAC multichannel N

WMA9 simple N
WMA9 VBR N
WMA9 Pro N
WMA9 multichannel N

OGG simple N
OGG VBR N
OGG multichannel N

DD N
DTS N
MPC N
FLAC N

Compatibility: video formats
MPEG1 and MPEG2
VCD O
SVCD O
KVCD O
MPEG2 MP @ HL 720p O
MPEG2 MP @ HL 1080i O

MPEG4
DivX 3 simple O
DivX 3 bitrate crash test 6000
DivX 3 HD 720p O
DivX 3 HD 1080p O

MPEG4 ASP
DivX O
XviD O
MPEG4 ASP multi-bframe without packet bitstream 1
MPEG4 ASP multi-bframe with packet bitstream 1
MPEG4 ASP custom matric O
MPEG4 ASP Qpel O
MPEG4 ASP GMC 0
MPEG4 ASP bitrate crashtest 4500
MPEG4 ASP HD 720p O
MPEG4 ASP HD 1080p O

MPEG4 AVC
H264 main profile N
H264 high profile N
MPEG4 AVC multi bframe N
MPEG4 AVC multi reference frame N
MPEG4 AVC with cabac N
MPEG4 AVC with weighted prediction N
MPEG4 AVC with custom quant matrix N
MPEG4 AVC bitrate crash test N
MPEG4 AVC HD 720p N
MPEG4 AVC HD 1080p N

Microsoft WMV9 or VC-1
WMV9 O
WMV9 bitrate crashtest 3000
WMV9 HD 720p O
WMV9 HD 1080p O

Compatibility: video and bivx containers
Containers *.avi
AVI simple O
AVI with MP3 VBR O
AVI with AC3 O
AVI with multi-audio MP3 O
AVI with multi-audio AC3 O
AVI with integrated multi subtitles P
AVI with chaptering P
AVI with menus P
AVI with DivX audio = old WMA O
AVI with multi-DivX audio O

Containers *.divx DivX 6 standard
DivX simple O
DivX with MP3 VBR O
DivX with AC3 O
DivX with multi-audio MP3 O
DivX with multi-audio AC3 O
DivX with integrated multi subtitles O
DivX with chaptering O
DivX with menus O

Containers with *.mp4
Nero Digital simple N
Nero Digital AAC VBR N
Nero Digital AAC multichanel N
Nero Digital with multi-audio AAC N
Nero Digital with multi-audio AAC multichannel N
Nero Digital with integrated multi subtitles N
Nero Digital with chaptering N

Containers *.mkv
MKV simple O
MKV with MP3 O
MKV with AC3 O
MKV with multi-audio MP3 O
MKV with multi-audio AC3 O
MKV with integrated multi subtitles O
MKV with chaptering O

Containers *.ogm
OGM simple N
OGM with OGG VBR N
OGM with multi-audio OGG N
OGM with multi-audio OGG multichannel N
OGM with integrated multi subtitles N
OGM with chaptering N

Containers *.wmv
WMV simple O
WMV with WMA9 VBR O
WMV with multichannel WMA N
WMV with multi-audio WMA9 O
WMV with multi-audio WMA9 multichannel O

Compatibility: separate subtitle files
SRT without tags O
SRT with tags P
SUB N
SSA N
SMI N
SMI multi-languages N
SUB + IDX N
SRT separate - multi subtitles N

It's a software that encodes many formats, including TS files. I had the same problem as you. You can encode normal files into TS files. Thanks in advance. Super

Hi!

NERO Vision 4 does it ;-)

Uh!!!!!!!!!!
Without getting bogged down with tweaks in VLC.
By looking around a bit, you'll find it; you just need to know how to search. (I spent 15 minutes)
If I understood correctly, you want to lighten your Transport Stream from your Free FTP.

HDTVtoMPEG2

URL http://www-personal.umich.edu/~balazer/HDTVtoMPEG2/HDTVtoMPEG2_v1.11.93.zip

You can convert to .mpg AND!!! Isolate the content by removing the ads from TF1 and the previous program because M6 was running late, and those that follow because you took a bit of security;
@+
Bruno Aka Antichambre

Normally, this Freeware does the trick: http://www.cocoonsoftware.com/SiteQMC/indexfr.htm it should also work for Dreambox

For editing, there are plenty of available and free software as well...

Happy converting...

Here is a free software that does this very well: Quick Media Converter.

Hello,

To convert video_ts to .avi, it's very simple, you load AVS VIDEO CONVERTER and run it.
For a video of about 4 GB, it takes about 4 hours.

Note that the software from AVS4YOU is paid; but you pay for one and you get all the others for free to download.

They are convenient and efficient.

Regards and good luck.

Gerard

( On Mac )
Convert the .TS to mp4 and then encode with DivxConverter!

Ciao