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On 09/12/2022 13:38, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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>> Depending on the PVR make/model I've seen 1080p resolution recordings with |
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>> .m2ts and .ts file extensions, while the codecs inside them are the same. |
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> I wasn’t aware that ts could contain h264. But then again—I never really |
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> bothered with live TV recordings in recent years. These days, if I find |
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> something interesting, I download the show form the TV channel’s website |
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> (called Mediathek in Germany, a word play on Bibliothek, meaning library). |
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> Interestingly though, the picture quality is noticably worse than what I |
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> receive via DVB-T. |
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I think this is confusing CONTAINER and CODEC. |
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.ts is a container format, h264 is a codec. I don't understand it |
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myself, either, but think of ts as your directory structure and h264 as |
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your file structure. |
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Incidentally, sticking this stuff in a .tar is probably okay - that's |
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just another container, but sticking it in a .tar.gz is not, the gz is |
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your codec and will make the file BIGGER in all probability. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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