How to compress .ts files? (1 Viewer)

[SHIFT_paradi]

Looks like there is a slick built in feature to compress dvr-ms files to wmv. Can .ts be compressed with the same feature?

 

[erosco]

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I use the TV Server's comskip plugin to execute a 'compress.cmd' file that contains the following statements:

QUOTE

@echo off
E:
CD \Recordings

echo compress.cmd invoked on %1 recorded from channel %2 >>compress.log

Rem %1 is the fully qualified name of the recorded mpeg file.
Rem %2 is the channel number of the recording

if %2 == "TCM" GOTO noads
if %2 == "Movie One" GOTO noads
if %2 == "Movie Two" GOTO noads
if %2 == "Movie Extra" GOTO noads
if %2 == "Movie Greats" GOTO noads

Rem run comskip to remove the ads
"C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\Comskip\comskip.exe" %1

:noads

Rem re-encode the show into DivX format
"C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MEncoder\mencoder.exe" -profile Xvid-Good -o "%~d1%~p1%~n1.avi" -edl "%~d1%~p1%~n1.edl" "%~d1%~p1%~n1.ts"

Rem Delete temporary files created by comskip/showanalyzer
del "%~d1%~p1%~n1.edl"
del "%~d1%~p1%~n1.txt"


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You can edit this to suite; but the main piece you'll want is the mencoder statement to compress the .ts file into an xvid encoded .avi file. You'll (obviously) need mencoder which is part of the mplayer package found on the net.

Cheers
Ross

 

[SHIFT_paradi]

Thanks Ross, will check out at next opportunity! btw - tried DVBPortal's TSConverter, and yes it converted it to a dvr-ms file very quickly (~5 minutes for an hour of HD content at 720P) but was still unable to ff/rew in MCE, so really nothing gained at all... a gig or two less in the file size, but I don't really care about that - files will typically be deleted after the program has been watched anyway.