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 file

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

Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

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

[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 ?

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

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 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
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.