Best or most popular encoder for TS files?

[Pob]

By using H264 TS Cutter v111 - http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=128476 - you can at least cut the pre and post padding and credits from your recordings, and you can strip out unwanted PIDS like the audio narrative (Options - PID filter). A typical 30-minute recording can be reduced from 4.5gb to 3.5gb - not a bad saving in hard drive space, and it only takes a few minutes.

I tried AutoMKV as suggested earlier in this thread, but after 3 hours of intensive hard-drive activity and both CPU cores running at 100% I ended up with my 30-minute 16:9 BBC HD recording being reduced to a 750mb 4:3 SD MKV file, with the audio about 1 second out of sync! The video quality was fantastic though, and I am sure the resolution could be sorted out, but I found several threads indicating audio sync is a major problem with AutoMKV.

I am puzzled as to how, within an hour or so of broadcast, torrents appear that are super-quality 720p transcodes of HD TV shows. A 720p MKV of my HD recordings would be great. But until there is an easy solution that does not require my PC to puff & pant for hours on end, I tend to agree the best solution is to add more storage capacity!

[Pob]

In case anyone tries H264 TS Cutter, I forgot to mention that for GPBVR the 'Recalculate PTS' option has to be unchecked.
Not sure why, but if it is left checked then the trimmed files play fine in apps like MPC Home Cinema, but in GBPVR playback jumps all over the place.

[time_lord]

yeah the ts is really complicated, there still isn't any tools around that will take our sound.

You pretty much have to leave NZ DVB-T recordings as .ts files at this stage, because none of the conversion utilities understand the HE-AAC audio format New Zealand has adopted for use on DVB-T. I'm sure that'll change in future when projects like ffmpeg are updated to support this new audio format...

Hi there, a wee update - yesterday I stumbled across 'Handbrake' (http://handbrake.fr/). Looked promising... tried it and straight out-of-the-box it took a TV3 digital recording and converted to MP4, with audio. Input 2.6G, output 390M - only 15% of the size of the original
The only issue was interlacing noise, so I changed a setting to 'fast deinterlacing' and changed from a 2-pass to 1-pass processing, and hey presto, sorted. I can't fault it, the quality is good.
Output can be to mp4, m4v, avi, mkv(?), etc. I think I saw somewhere that Handbrake might use ffmpeg somewhere, but whatever... didn't need to know about those details, this tool was really easy to use!

Now, once I convert a recording, how do I tell gbpvr to change from pointing to the .ts file to point to the .mp4...?