Conversion of HD H.264 transport stream to WMV

[sgauntlett]

OK. I can capture an HD H.264 transport stream with AC3 audio. Firstly, what's the best was to extract the H.264 and AC3 bits from the TS file? Most of the tools I have used before only like MPEG-2 video!

 

Then, what do I need to transcode the HD H.264 into WMV-HD or DivX?

 

And the AC3 to WMA or something?

 

Thus making an HD DVD that would play back on a media centre.

[emmel]

OK. I can capture an HD H.264 transport stream with AC3 audio. Firstly, what's the best was to extract the H.264 and AC3 bits from the TS file? Most of the tools I have used before only like MPEG-2 video!

 

Then, what do I need to transcode the HD H.264 into WMV-HD or DivX?

 

And the AC3 to WMA or something?

 

Thus making an HD DVD that would play back on a media centre.

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mplayer, for example, is capable of demuxing the ts into h264 and ac3:

 

>mplayer -dumpvideo -dumpfile recording.264 recording.ts

>mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile recording.ac3 recording.ts

 

This is what I usually do, and finally multiplex the elementary streams into mp4 with mp4creator. The mp4-file can then be opened by any DirectShow based applicationm provided that there are appropriate filters installed and registered.

 

But isn't h264 in ts as such just a legal hd dvd format/container? Don't know about the profiles and other details, though...