I had recording setup last night and now I have 111 ts files. I guess heavy rain may caused so many ts files. is there a script that would merge them into one ts and convert them into mkv ? How I can setup after recording rules to convert recordings ?
You can merge them directly with the mkv container using append. All you need is the free "mkvmerge" tool.
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 7:20 AM, jacek burghardt jaceksburghardt@gmail.com wrote:
I had recording setup last night and now I have 111 ts files. I guess heavy rain may caused so many ts files. is there a script that would merge them into one ts and convert them into mkv ? How I can setup after recording rules to convert recordings ?
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Am 25.05.2014 16:20, schrieb jacek burghardt:
I had recording setup last night and now I have 111 ts files. I guess heavy rain may caused so many ts files. is there a script that would merge them into one ts and convert them into mkv ? How I can setup after recording rules to convert recordings ?
Why do you want to do this? You will get a movie with 110 breaks that last some seconds in it. Throw it away.
Gerald
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I had delete the movie files that had been broken up so badly, but I had few recordings that have two files in them. So is it better to convert each ts to mkv and merge the mkv ? I set my max recording option tp 30GB. I had found an issue with my vdr it crashes when recording tv. i
I already told you:
"You can merge them directly with the mkv container using append. All you need is the free "mkvmerge" tool."
Maybe you're unaware that ts & mkv are simply containers. Nothing is converted when you change containers. Put it this way, milk is milk whether you have it in a glass or a plastic cup.
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 3:36 PM, jacek burghardt jaceksburghardt@gmail.com wrote:
I had delete the movie files that had been broken up so badly, but I had few recordings that have two files in them. So is it better to convert each ts to mkv and merge the mkv ? I set my max recording option tp 30GB. I had found an issue with my vdr it crashes when recording tv. i
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Thanks, most of the scripts I was looking at are using ffmpeg to extract audio and then handbrake to convert them.
There's no reason to touch the audio/video streams at all unless you actually want to re-encode them for some reason. If all you want is an .mkv rather than a .ts, that can be done in seconds with mkvmerge. Re-encoding in that case is pointless & a waste of time.
Am 2014-05-26 05:09, schrieb VDR User:
There's no reason to touch the audio/video streams at all unless you actually want to re-encode them for some reason. If all you want is an .mkv rather than a .ts, that can be done in seconds with mkvmerge. Re-encoding in that case is pointless & a waste of time.
This is all true. Beside that there is no need to extract audio before using handbrake, there is even no need to use mkvmerge if you don't pretend on mkv. I had used an after recording script that just checked with avprobe, whether the video codec is mpeg2video, or h264. If it was mpeg2video I simply renamed the file to .mpeg, and for h264 to .mp4. Every programs known by me played this files without any problems. No need for mkv.
To add some ts files to one use cat: cat 00001.tx 00002.ts >new.ts
Gerald
On Mon, 26 May 2014 13:17:51 +0200 Gerald Dachs vdr@dachsweb.de wrote:
Am 2014-05-26 05:09, schrieb VDR User:
There's no reason to touch the audio/video streams at all unless you actually want to re-encode them for some reason. If all you want is an .mkv rather than a .ts, that can be done in seconds with mkvmerge. Re-encoding in that case is pointless & a waste of time.
This is all true. Beside that there is no need to extract audio before using handbrake, there is even no need to use mkvmerge if you don't pretend on mkv. I had used an after recording script that just checked with avprobe, whether the video codec is mpeg2video, or h264. If it was mpeg2video I simply renamed the file to .mpeg, and for h264 to .mp4. Every programs known by me played this files without any problems. No need for mkv.
It's better to use mkvmerge (or ffmpeg etc for mpeg2) to remultiplex properly. You still don't have to transcode the streams so it doesn't take much longer. Players can't tell how long (in terms of time) TS files are, or how any point in the file corresponds to time for seeking etc.
On 26.05.2014 13:41, Tony Houghton wrote: [...]
It's better to use mkvmerge (or ffmpeg etc for mpeg2) to remultiplex properly. You still don't have to transcode the streams so it doesn't take much longer. Players can't tell how long (in terms of time) TS files are, or how any point in the file corresponds to time for seeking etc.
Also, mkvmerge removes NALUs from h264 if there are any, on the fly with no noticeable overhead.
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