FWIIW

I store satellite MPG DVB data to my hard disk using a program called
mytheatre. I know the satellite data is transport stream format., but
I'm wondering if the data on the disk is program stream formant

Anyone know of a utility to tell the difference?

"The MPEG2 System specification defines two system stream formats: the
MPEG2 Transport Stream (MTS) and the MPEG2 Program Stream (MPS). The
MTS is tailored for communicating or storing one or more programs of
MPEG2 compressed data and also other data in relatively error-prone
environments. The MPS is tailored for relatively error-free
environments. "


TIA

--G

georgess <george1pds@excite.com> writes:
Try downloading the demo of a program called "Manzanita MPEGID".

There's also "BBINFO" from BBTools: http://members.cox.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html

I believe TMPGEnc's MPEG Tools will not demux a transport stream, so you
could just try that. If it works, you must have a program stream.

-Jonathan jhue@sonic.net

On a sunny day (Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:02:42 -0400) it happened georgess
<george1pds@excite.com> wrote in <23acmvkcqi5qta6tnn0dlupqme9fhtobb1@4ax.com>:

Normally the MPEG2 is extracted from the ts along with the relevant audio PID.

I only know of one case that really records TS, I am using it (Linux).
This way I can record 4 sat channels (pic + sound) from the same transponder
at the same time.
After that, to be able to play back, you need to demux the TS (I do it in real time).
This I use ts2pes for.
I can also record TS in 1 video PID and say 7 audio PIDs.
Then in the demux select a language PID.
Perhaps things like 'tivo' do the same?
I really like the ts format, store all recordings from satellite in ts on a normal
data disk.
No authoring required.
See my page http://www.home.zonnet.nl/panteltje/dvd/
for the Linux software to do this with a SkyStar1 DVB-s card.

If you have only one movie / disk (recording I should say :-) ), you can write
the .ts as a dvd image.
Then playback in Linux:
cat /dev/dvd | ts2pes VPID APID | mplayer -vop pp=0x20000 -fs -
the most efficient way that I can think of!
Because the sectors will be sequential, and the stream is not broken in small
pieces (like in dvd-authoring, WTF did they do that?) the playback is extremely
smooth on the PC.
Perhaps some of these DVD recorders already do something like this internally.
JP

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:58:29 GMT, jhue@sonic.net (Pond Scum) wrote:


Thanks.. that did the trick

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:14:48 GMT, Jan Panteltje <panteltje@yahoo.com>
wrote:


I've yet to look at my home data with bbinfo (just tried it on an
ordinary mpeg file on a different computer, and it identified sopme
random mpg as a program stream)

But... the moonlight video decoder does work with transport streams,
so once you have identified the decoder as the one to use, you cannot
tell if it is transport or program stream. I'm using w2k.

I'll confirm once I try it

--G

On a sunny day (Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:59:39 -0400) it happened georgess
<george1pds@excite.com> wrote in <149emv868ifdet2vjtoes3a4npnvliue3r@4ax.com>:

panteltje:/big/video/in/ts# bbdmux potential-for-peace-epi127-5pids.ts
bbDMUX - version 1.5, by Brent Beyeler (beyeler@home.com)
compiled for speed, by Apachez

Scanning for stream id's, press control-c to quit ...

File potential-for-peace-epi127-5pids.ts is not an MPEG Program Stream

This is an old version of bbdmux (Linux) maybe later versions will recognize .ts, dunno.
Try it...
I have an other program 'streamtype' (it is in the dvb-0.9.3 driver (Linux) ):
panteltje:/big/video/in/ts# streamtype potential-for-peace-epi127-5pids.ts
streamtype
Reading potential-for-peace-epi127-5pids.ts
TS_STREAM
SIZE: 720x576
ASPECT: 4:3
FRAMERATE: 25
PROFILE: Main
LEVEL: Main
CHROMA: 4:2:0
PAL
MPEG2

Jan

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:44:26 GMT, Jan Panteltje <panteltje@yahoo.com>
wrote:
The command
bbinfo sirens.mpg 1

has this output on an ordinary mpeg file

bbINFO - version 1.9, by Brent Beyeler (beyeler@home.com)
speed increases by, Apachez and Christian Vogelgsang

File sirens.mpg is an MPEG-2 Program Stream


PACK #0, pack_start_code = 000001BA, SCR = 2546412.158741 ms
......