Record In another format other than TS (1 Viewer)

[stirlinghart]

Hi,

Is it possible to make mediaportal record in another format other than .ts? The ts files are huge. Is there an add on or something I can get?

Thanks in advance

 

[regeszter]

Hi,

Is it possible to make mediaportal record in another format other than .ts? The ts files are huge. Is there an add on or something I can get?

Thanks in advance

The file size is depend on the encoding and the bitrate, resolution, etc. It does not related to TS file format.

 

[mm1352000]

Hello

Is it possible to make mediaportal record in another format other than .ts?

No.

The ts files are huge.

You're aware that TS files aren't inherently large, right?
TS (MPEG 2 transport stream) is just a "container format", like MKV, MP4, WTV, ISO, etc.

The size of recordings is determined by:

• the length of the content (eg. 2 hours)
• the bit-rate of the content (eg. 10 Mb/s video, 100 kb/s audio)
• the number of video and audio streams

Size has almost nothing to do with the container. In other words, an MKV, MP4 or WTV containing the same content will be roughly the same size as a TS file.

If you want smaller files then you'll have to re-encode the content. Re-encoding will require significant processing power and time. It's also a trade-off between file size and subjective video and audio quality. Smaller files will mean more processing (ie. longer conversion time) and usually some quality loss.

Is there an add on or something I can get?

If your CPU/GPU are powerful enough to re-encode, then you could try MCEBuddy or similar.

Regards,
mm

 

[aspik]

There was some time ago an option to record in MPEG, if I remember correctly it caused more trouble than benefit. It was shortly removed, which is good, TV Server should always record in TS . Transcoding, encoding, converting… are jobs for different apps and not for TV Server.

 

[stirlinghart]

Thanks guys for your responses. You explained it very well.

Thank you ☺