Hi
I use the solution here :
http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=73791
You can use mpeg_ps_extract to transform the vdr file in separate file .264 plus several audio file When extracted, any soft like mencoder can convert them
Best regards
Le Wednesday 01 October 2008 21:15:59 Jelle De Loecker, vous avez écrit :
Good evening all,
I've got a bunch of old recordings made with VDR, like a 20 GB HD recording. I'd like to slim it down a bit, but don't really know where to start.
How do you convert a show recorded on BBC HD to a "more" compact file?
I asked in other way
is there any fast method (without demux) for converting the h264 pes records from vdr to any other containers - ts, avi ?
I use the solution here :
http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=73791
You can use mpeg_ps_extract to transform the vdr file in separate file .264 plus several audio file When extracted, any soft like mencoder can convert them
Best regards
Le Wednesday 01 October 2008 21:15:59 Jelle De Loecker, vous avez écrit :
Good evening all,
I've got a bunch of old recordings made with VDR, like a 20 GB HD recording. I'd like to slim it down a bit, but don't really know where to start.
How do you convert a show recorded on BBC HD to a "more" compact file?
Goga777 wrote:
I asked in other way
is there any fast method (without demux) for converting the h264 pes records from vdr to any other containers - ts, avi ?
if you ask that way - imho - NO demuxing is the minimum when comming from pes and want to convert to ts remuxing is a very fast process compared with reencoding the whole thing i produced a avchd (bluray structure on dvd) with HDvdrpes_to_mkv and a windows toolset (tsMuxerGUI), only thing is the duallayer limit of the dvd
depending of "slim it down a bit", pes has a (small) overhead compared with ts but its not that much to call it "slim" realy sliming it would mean removing information reencoding with lower bitrate or reduced resolution (can be difficult because 1080i -> 720p is not much smaller and there ist no 720i there is not much room to make it smaller (and keeping the quality) and who wants to convert to 576/480 i/p format?
even if vdr records in ts, to get a avchd or bluray disk you will have to remux the recording
I use the solution here :
http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=73791
You can use mpeg_ps_extract to transform the vdr file in separate file .264 plus several audio file When extracted, any soft like mencoder can convert them
Best regards
Le Wednesday 01 October 2008 21:15:59 Jelle De Loecker, vous avez écrit :
Good evening all,
I've got a bunch of old recordings made with VDR, like a 20 GB HD recording. I'd like to slim it down a bit, but don't really know where to start.
How do you convert a show recorded on BBC HD to a "more" compact file?
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is there any fast method (without demux) for converting the h264 pes records from vdr to any other containers - ts, avi ?
My workaround is using VDR-STREAMDEV to record H.264 shows directly to TS-format. It is not 'good' TS as my Popcorn Hour networked media tank (PCH) usually cannot replay it directly.
I edit it with TS Packet Editor (windows) to cut out commercials and trim overhead, and as a bonus it also fixes the TS stream to a more compatible version which PCH plays right.
Caveat is that if no data is coming from Streamdev, wget is not very good on recovering that. Like restarting VDR or similar.
Usually I also convert recorded shows to a more manageable MKV (Matroska) container. But for this I need demuxing and muxing.
And I run wget from cron, also "killall wget" after show has ended.
Much easier than guide on German forum (*1), but not Linux only solution as there is no (AFAIK) GUI-tool to fix-TS and cut commercials. But my solution is lossless and fast.
One way forward could even be using Streamdev's extern-script to output via FIFO to some toolset like demux and remux without temp files.
//Jori
Hi,
Goga777 schrieb:
I asked in other way
is there any fast method (without demux) for converting the h264 pes records from vdr to any other containers - ts, avi ?
you can use
$ ffmpeg -i 001.vdr -acodec copy -vcodec copy -scodec copy output.ts
or
$ ffmpeg -i 001.vdr -acodec copy -vcodec copy -scodec copy output.mkv
to convert the recoring to a different container without demuxing it.
Regards, Artem
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