What is best format to transcode TS capture to

Scott Allen mlxxxp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Dec 30 11:20:46 UTC 2010


On 30 December 2010 02:29, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  An HDTV capture can eat up 9 gigs per hour in the TS (Transport
> Stream) format.  What's the best format, in terms of space saving,
> without losing quality?

TS format is just a container. What codec is used for the video? If
it's MPEG-2 then you could transcode it to MPEG-4 AVC/H.264. If it's
already H.264 then you won't get much better than that without
lowering quality.
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