Just to add 1 more opinion...

Over 6 years i'm working with transport stream files and ALWAYS it was .ts because most of proprietary applications do not handle it correctly with any other extensions. There are DVD/VideoCD created by proprietary DVB Live TV recording that use transport stream files as well with .ts extension. Moreover, all players such as VLC/mplayer/xine well working with .ts transport stream files and do not require any renaming, while avidemux consider .ts a native extension for transport stream files as well.

IMHO, it sould be .ts

On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 14:50 +0100, Martin Dauskardt wrote:

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From: Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de

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Up to now VDR has used names like 001.vdr for its recording files. While moving to Transport Stream as the recording format, I need to use a different file name extension, and so was wondering which one to use. My first idea was *.ts, for "Transport Stream", but when I point, for instance, Konqueror to such a file, it thinks it is a "Qt Translation Source". So I was wondering if I should use *.mpg instead. This one is identified by Konqueror as an MPEG file and will make it launch a proper player.

What do you think about this?

I am strongly against this. *.ts may conflict with KDE, but it is a usual ending for transport stream. Several mpeg-tools can handle this. I think the dreambox is also using *.ts for its recordings.

*.mpg would give much more problems with applications. A TS is not an mpeg-file. Applications which can play mpg but not TS may even crash.

Greets, Martin