Converting .ts files?

[Kenny Cargill]

Not strictly a Win 7 problem but maybe someone here has the answer.
Recorded a TV programme on a Ross Freesat box using USB flash drive and
finished with this:

FOLDER C:\Users\Kenny\Desktop\pvr\ ------- 0 5 8,592,703,488
8,592,703,488
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.001
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.002
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.003
FILE ---A---- 707,411,968 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.004
TOTAL C:\Users\Kenny\Desktop\pvr\ ------- 0 5 8,592,703,488
8,592,703,488

Have tried a few video conversion programs but they only see the first .ts
file and not the others with the 001,002,003 & 004 at the end.
The .ts file is only the first hour of a 3.5 hour program, how can I combine
and convert these to a file suitable for use in a video editing program or
burning to DVD?
For anyone interested it was Glastonbury featuring the Stones on BBC2 last
night.

Kenny Cargill

 

[NY]

Not strictly a Win 7 problem but maybe someone here has the answer.
Recorded a TV programme on a Ross Freesat box using USB flash drive and
finished with this:

FOLDER C:\Users\Kenny\Desktop\pvr\ ------- 0 5
8,592,703,488 8,592,703,488
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.001
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.002
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.003
FILE ---A---- 707,411,968 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.004
TOTAL C:\Users\Kenny\Desktop\pvr\ ------- 0 5 8,592,703,488
8,592,703,488

Have tried a few video conversion programs but they only see the first .ts
file and not the others with the 001,002,003 & 004 at the end.
The .ts file is only the first hour of a 3.5 hour program, how can I
combine and convert these to a file suitable for use in a video editing
program or burning to DVD?
For anyone interested it was Glastonbury featuring the Stones on BBC2 last
night.

Kenny Cargill

How about taking off the .001 etc suffix and modifying the base part of the
file name (eg to "BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232_001" etc) so all the files have the
same suffix .ts.

You should then be able to convert all these files to another format (eg
..mpg) and to join the parts together into a single file (eg a .mpg) and to
put this onto DVD. You may want to split the 3.5 hour performance over a
couple of DVDs (at a convenient break in the programme) because 3.5 hours on
one DVD (assuming it's a standard 4.7 GB disc) requires a lot of compression
and you'll lose a lot of quality. Also, be prepared for the compression
process taking a looooong time (an hour or so), even with moderate amount of
compression.

 

[JJ]

Not strictly a Win 7 problem but maybe someone here has the answer.
Recorded a TV programme on a Ross Freesat box using USB flash drive and
finished with this:

FOLDER C:\Users\Kenny\Desktop\pvr\ ------- 0 5 8,592,703,488
8,592,703,488
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.001
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.002
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.003
FILE ---A---- 707,411,968 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.004
TOTAL C:\Users\Kenny\Desktop\pvr\ ------- 0 5 8,592,703,488
8,592,703,488

Have tried a few video conversion programs but they only see the first .ts
file and not the others with the 001,002,003 & 004 at the end.
The .ts file is only the first hour of a 3.5 hour program, how can I combine

They could be in MPEG Transport format. If so, it can be safely joined into
one file from the command prompt using this command. Warning, long text!
Replace all "{S}" with a space.

C:
CD \Users\Kenny\Desktop\pvr
COPY{S}/B{S}BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts+BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.001+BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.002+BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.003+BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.004{S}BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232_combined.mpg

and convert these to a file suitable for use in a video editing program or
burning to DVD?

Try the joined MPG file from above for editing. Burning it to DVD is simple
if you want to play it from a computer.

But if you want to play it on a standalone home DVD player, that's a
different issue. It'll depend on the video formats it supports. e.g.: DivX,
AVI, etc. Check the player's manual.

If you want to make it a standard DVD video, then you'll need a DVD
authoring software, and not just a mere DVD burner software.

 

[Kenny Cargill]

Thanks for the replies. Have discovered that AVS Video Converter works well
if the files are loaded and processed one at a time, I had made the mistake
of loading all the files into the program at once and it couldn't handle
that.
Estimated conversion time for each 1hr part is 1h20m but CPU is near max and
I can hear the fan running faster.

Kenny

"JJ" wrote in message

Not strictly a Win 7 problem but maybe someone here has the answer.
Recorded a TV programme on a Ross Freesat box using USB flash drive and
finished with this:

FOLDER C:\Users\Kenny\Desktop\pvr\ ------- 0 5
8,592,703,488
8,592,703,488
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.001
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.002
FILE ---A---- 1,971,322,880 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.003
FILE ---A---- 707,411,968 BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.004
TOTAL C:\Users\Kenny\Desktop\pvr\ ------- 0 5 8,592,703,488
8,592,703,488

Have tried a few video conversion programs but they only see the first .ts
file and not the others with the 001,002,003 & 004 at the end.
The .ts file is only the first hour of a 3.5 hour program, how can I
combine

They could be in MPEG Transport format. If so, it can be safely joined into
one file from the command prompt using this command. Warning, long text!
Replace all "{S}" with a space.

C:
CD \Users\Kenny\Desktop\pvr
COPY{S}/B{S}BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts+BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.001+BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.002+BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.003+BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232.ts.004{S}BBC_2_NI_20130629_2232_combined.mpg

and convert these to a file suitable for use in a video editing program or
burning to DVD?

Try the joined MPG file from above for editing. Burning it to DVD is simple
if you want to play it from a computer.

But if you want to play it on a standalone home DVD player, that's a
different issue. It'll depend on the video formats it supports. e.g.: DivX,
AVI, etc. Check the player's manual.

If you want to make it a standard DVD video, then you'll need a DVD
authoring software, and not just a mere DVD burner software.

 

[NY]

Thanks for the reply, am trying out VideoRedoTVSuite at the minute, it
does accept all the files together and I'm working on discarding all but
the Stones performance which is all I really want. Not sure about the
Blu-Ray suggestion, couldn't see me using it much.

I've not tried VRD for joining .ts files and/or HD recordings (as I only
have an SD DVB-T adaptor and I use Windows Media Centre to record, so it
records in .wtv rather than .ts format). But certainly for SD .wtv files it
does a great job at joining recordings: before now I've even joined a
704x576 SD "PAL" recording from one channel and a 544x576 reduced res "PAL"
recording from a "+1" channel when I've missed the second half of a film
that's been split across a new bulletin and had to rely on the "+1" (channel
that broadcasts the same as anothr but 1 hour later) recording for the
second half. I needed to save the 544 recording as a 704 recording, which
takes a long time as the whole thing needs to be recoded, but it's worth the
wait!

The only thing that didn't get preserved in that rather extreme case was the
subtitle stream of the 544 part: it survived promotion to 704 pixels but not
the subsequent joining.

 

[Kenny Cargill]

VideoRedoTVSuite did the job nicely, combining all the parts and trimming
then saving as HD MP4 file. Only slight niggle was I couldn't find the
finished file!
It was in "C:\Users\Kenny\AppData\Roaming\VideoReDo-TVSuite4", only found it
by doing a search using file name.

Kenny

"NY" wrote in message

Thanks for the reply, am trying out VideoRedoTVSuite at the minute, it
does accept all the files together and I'm working on discarding all but
the Stones performance which is all I really want. Not sure about the
Blu-Ray suggestion, couldn't see me using it much.

I've not tried VRD for joining .ts files and/or HD recordings (as I only
have an SD DVB-T adaptor and I use Windows Media Centre to record, so it
records in .wtv rather than .ts format). But certainly for SD .wtv files it
does a great job at joining recordings: before now I've even joined a
704x576 SD "PAL" recording from one channel and a 544x576 reduced res "PAL"
recording from a "+1" channel when I've missed the second half of a film
that's been split across a new bulletin and had to rely on the "+1" (channel
that broadcasts the same as anothr but 1 hour later) recording for the
second half. I needed to save the 544 recording as a 704 recording, which
takes a long time as the whole thing needs to be recoded, but it's worth the
wait!

The only thing that didn't get preserved in that rather extreme case was the
subtitle stream of the 544 part: it survived promotion to 704 pixels but not
the subsequent joining.

 

[Paul]

VideoRedoTVSuite did the job nicely, combining all the parts and
trimming then saving as HD MP4 file. Only slight niggle was I couldn't
find the finished file!
It was in "C:\Users\Kenny\AppData\Roaming\VideoReDo-TVSuite4", only
found it by doing a search using file name.

Kenny

Stuff ends up in there, because in the Vista/W7/W8 era, writing
to a Program folder is verboten. AppData\Roaming is the next best thing.
Even better, is being given a file dialog, so you can select your
own folder as a target

Paul