How to play TS files
July 11, 2010 10:29 PM Subscribe
I am having trouble playing TS avi files. I have vlc player and I have tried to download something to convert the TS files to anything else, but no luck.
Firstly: what Pinback says.
Secondly: I've always used MPEG Streamclip to convert TS files to something more helpful. I needed to get some sort of plugin from Apple to deal with MPEG2 files, YMMV. Which leads us to:
Thirdly: What OS are you using?
posted by pompomtom at 11:26 PM on July 11, 2010
Secondly: I've always used MPEG Streamclip to convert TS files to something more helpful. I needed to get some sort of plugin from Apple to deal with MPEG2 files, YMMV. Which leads us to:
Thirdly: What OS are you using?
posted by pompomtom at 11:26 PM on July 11, 2010
Perian includes a lot of audio and video codecs for playing AVI files.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:33 PM on July 11, 2010
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:33 PM on July 11, 2010
The alternative is he's trying to watch "ts" movies recorded in theaters with a camcorder, not a .ts file.
In which case, it's just an AVI.
posted by Rendus at 12:34 AM on July 12, 2010
In which case, it's just an AVI.
posted by Rendus at 12:34 AM on July 12, 2010
Good catch; forgot about telesync'd cam caps…
Still, if VLC won't play it then there must be something odd about it - so more info will help.
(And there's no such thing as "just an AVI" - it's the codec in the container, not the container, that counts…)
posted by Pinback at 1:01 AM on July 12, 2010
Still, if VLC won't play it then there must be something odd about it - so more info will help.
(And there's no such thing as "just an AVI" - it's the codec in the container, not the container, that counts…)
posted by Pinback at 1:01 AM on July 12, 2010
I think he's talking about TeleSync. Upload a sample somewhere and I'll tell you what's going on to be best of my ability.
posted by cj_ at 2:46 AM on July 12, 2010
posted by cj_ at 2:46 AM on July 12, 2010
Defiler Codec Pack + VLC Player = Win!
posted by Hellafiles at 8:43 AM on July 12, 2010
posted by Hellafiles at 8:43 AM on July 12, 2010
Defiler Codec Pack + VLC Player = Win!
But VLC doesn't use external codecs (with the exception of accessing the WMV / WMA codecs on Windows, which should already exist as part of a normal install &/or WMP update).
Congratulations, you've installed something you didn't need, which brings with it the very real possibility of confusing the hell out of every other application which relies on DirectShow under Windows and causing problems like the OP's…
(The same goes for CCCP, K-Lite, and all the other "ultimate!!!1! u needs this to play my totally rad videoz!" codec packs, by the way. The best you can say about them is that some at least try to sort out the mess of filter graphs tucked away in the Windows registry, but they're still not a real solution to the question of "Why can't I play this file?"…
If you absolutely must install a codec pack, then install only one, and uninstall it before updating it or installing any others.)
posted by Pinback at 1:10 AM on July 13, 2010
But VLC doesn't use external codecs (with the exception of accessing the WMV / WMA codecs on Windows, which should already exist as part of a normal install &/or WMP update).
Congratulations, you've installed something you didn't need, which brings with it the very real possibility of confusing the hell out of every other application which relies on DirectShow under Windows and causing problems like the OP's…
(The same goes for CCCP, K-Lite, and all the other "ultimate!!!1! u needs this to play my totally rad videoz!" codec packs, by the way. The best you can say about them is that some at least try to sort out the mess of filter graphs tucked away in the Windows registry, but they're still not a real solution to the question of "Why can't I play this file?"…
If you absolutely must install a codec pack, then install only one, and uninstall it before updating it or installing any others.)
posted by Pinback at 1:10 AM on July 13, 2010
Response by poster: thanks for clearing things up! it was a tele-sync file
posted by let444 at 8:50 PM on August 11, 2010
posted by let444 at 8:50 PM on August 11, 2010
This thread is closed to new comments.
"TS avi files" doesn't particularly make sense - TS files would normally be a MPEG-2 or -4 Transport Stream, which is its own container; while it could be a Transport Stream packaged in an .avi container, it doesn't make much sense to do so.
Is AVI the actual file extension (i.e. videoname.avi), or is it just what Windows is showing as the filetype (e.g. "videoname AVI File")?
If the file does have an .avi extension, could you upload / point us to a sample somewhere?
posted by Pinback at 11:07 PM on July 11, 2010