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On 2021/12/21 at 07:17pm, Wols Lists wrote: |
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> On 21/12/2021 18:49, Spackman, Chris wrote: |
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> > 2b. press the "export video" button at the bottom of the window. Here, |
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> > for me, the defaults work fine. |
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> The problem is 2b. For me, it's an extremely simple case of "I gave you |
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> a dot ts file, I want a dot ts file back". |
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> The act of importing the ts file into the project seems to throw that |
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> information away. I know a .ts is some sort of a container, with streams |
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> and whatnot, but I don't have a clue what's in it. Why should I? |
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> All I know is I want to end up with EXACTLY the same sort of file I |
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> started with, and this seems exactly what most video editors don't have |
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> a clue how to do! |
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> (Like a word .docx - I don't give a monkeys what's inside it, I don't |
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> need to, word takes care of all that. Why can't any half-decent video |
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> editor do the same?) |
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> And yes, I have tried. You're hearing the screams of frustration from |
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> countless failed attempts. |
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Video files are certainly horribly complex. I promise I am no expert at |
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all, but I have been fooling with them for decades, so I suppose I |
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probably know a lot more than I realize, and more than most people who |
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haven't been at it that long. |
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I think the problem is that the files have both a container and a |
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format. Matroska, if i understand correctly, is a container. It could |
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hold video, audio, and even subtitles, in any of several formats. |
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This is unlike a DOCX file, for example, which is always a zip file with |
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xml (and other) files in expected formats. The closest to the situation |
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you are seeing is if MS Office opened an ODT file (from LibreOffice) and |
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always saved it - without asking - as a DOCX file. |
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Even more out there would be if LO would accept ODT files that were |
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tarred and gzipped instead of just plain zipped and that also could have |
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html, markdown, or org formats instead of xml inside the tar.gz |
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file. (that would an interesting world, i think) |
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I hadn't realized it until you brought it up, but it is odd that so many |
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video programs don't have a "save in the same format as the original" |
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option. I'm sure ffmpeg can probably do it easily, but then we're back |
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to the original issues with trying to get the cutting lined up neatly. |
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Good luck. |
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Chris Spackman (he / him) chris@××××××××××.com |
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ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Schools |
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ESL Educator Columbus State Community College |
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Linux user since 1998 Linux User #137532 |
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