Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-28 Thread Lucian Muresan
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 f

Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-26 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 26 May 2014 13:17:51 +0200 Gerald Dachs 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

Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-26 Thread Gerald Dachs
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 o

Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-25 Thread 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. __

Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-25 Thread jacek burghardt
Thanks, most of the scripts I was looking at are using ffmpeg to extract audio and then handbrake to convert them. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-25 Thread VDR User
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

Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-25 Thread jacek burghardt
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

Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-25 Thread Gerald Dachs
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 recor

Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-25 Thread VDR User
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 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 t

[vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-25 Thread 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 ? __