HD-PVR .ts files kills the

Tollaksen wrote on 5/20/2009, 9:39 AM

I am a noob but I look up to you guys, so here goes...

We have some old home movies (films) that the family had converted to 15 DVDs. We didn't know the chronological order of the films. So, the DVDs play with scenes from the 70's and 80's all mixed together. I want to edited them.

I bought a Hauppauge 1212 HD-PVR to capture that DVDs from an up converting DVD player. (Be gentle at the time this was the only way that I could think of to get the video into Vegas to edit. I know now that a program like "AnyDVD" trial could have saved me $$ and time).

The first file that I captured was a .m2ts it opened, looked great and was editable. The problem lies in the fact that while I was adjusting the settings in the capture software I inadvertently changed the record format to .ts. (10 DVDs (5 nights)recorded in that format)

When I try to open the .ts in Vegas it kill the "Sony Surrogate". I do not know what that is or what that does except that it may have to do with codecs.

Is there any thing I can do to get the .ts files in vegas without converting all of the .ts files?

Thanks in advance for your patience with my noobness and your guidance.

Tollaksen

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/20/2009, 11:20 AM

if you have the original DVD's it would save you a bunch of time & hair-pulling if you used the 'import DVD" feature in Vegas. If you're is old enough where you don't have that feature, just copy all the VOB's to your hard drive & rename them to .mpg's & vegas will read them no problem. At least should be no problem. :)

Tollaksen wrote on 5/20/2009, 11:40 AM

Thanks friar. I should have asked before I started. I never thought about that. Man, Just like asking for directions i guess, You never need them till you get lost. But if you would have had them to start with you would not have gotten lost.

So, whats the "surrogate" and why did it kill it?
I searched around and still can't figure out what the differance is in the .ts and .m2ts and why it won't play nice. So, they are 2 different types of h.264 streams?

blink3times wrote on 5/20/2009, 12:16 PM

TS and M2TS are simply containers that hold the avc... slightly different containers.

You don't really need to convert anything, you just need to change containers. You can try TSmuxer and see if that will do it for you. Have TSmuxer take your TS file and prepare a Blu Ray for you (within that Blu Ray folder will be the M2TS that you want)

TSmuxer is a free download... google for it.