I am pulling my hair out trying to get this done, so please please any tips welcome

so i have downloaded a film .avi i need to convert it to dreambox format .ts so i can ftp to dm hdd

i have tried

ffmpeg -i BMW.wmv -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mpegts BMW.ts

this is the output

xxxxxxxx@desktop:~/Desktop/BMW$ ffmpeg -i BMW.wmv -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mpegts BMW.ts
FFmpeg version 0.5-svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --extra-version=svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-libdc1394 --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-armv6t2 --disable-armvfp --disable-neon --disable-altivec --disable-vis --enable-shared --disable-static
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Apr 10 2009 23:18:41, gcc: 4.3.3

Seems stream 1 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 1000.00 (1000/1) -> 29.97 (30000/1001)
Input #0, asf, from 'BMW.wmv':
Duration: 00:04:49.74, start: 3.000000, bitrate: 1346 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Audio: wmav2, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Video: wmv2, yuv420p, 720x300, 1177 kb/s, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Output #0, mpegts, to 'BMW.ts':
Stream #0.0: Video: wmv2, yuv420p, 720x300, q=2-31, 1177 kb/s, 90k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: wmav2, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
Stream #0.0 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
[mpegts @ 0x9d0c9a0]dts < pcr, TS is invalid
frame= 3281 fps=2134 q=-1.0 size= 20857kB time=109.05 bitrate=1566.8kbits/s frame= 5234 fps=2569 q=-1.0 size= 28574kB time=173.97 bitrate=1345.5kbits/s frame= 6615 fps=2607 q=-1.0 size= 37258kB time=220.31 bitrate=1385.4kbits/s frame= 8028 fps=2641 q=-1.0 size= 45500kB time=267.35 bitrate=1394.2kbits/s frame= 8765 fps=2547 q=-1.0 Lsize= 51563kB time=292.43 bitrate=1444.5kbits/s
video:41781kB audio:4581kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 11.216906%

my tv is 16.9 if this helps

thanks

Hmm...the .ts is a new one for me. From what I read, it appears to be a 'stream container' (transport stream or ".TS"), wrapped around an MPEG file.

Try to convert the .WMV to an MPEG2 file (you appear to be comfortable with ffmpeg, so I'm not going there.. ), then try this:

That'll just put a 'wrapper' around the stream, and does no encoding. Give it a shot....

I would also be interested to know if that did work.

Linux Archive

The codec used for a wmv container will be wrong. You are trying to copy the video stream as is to an mpeg container.
There is no .ts format extension listed in "ffmpeg -formats". What is dm hdd?

According to this web site, .ts is for mpeg2 transport streams. So use "-vcodec mpeg2video -f mpegts". If using -y BMW.ts doesn't work, you may need to use BMW.mpg and rename it afterwards. Look on the site's instructions on the bit rates they accept.

---

Using Google I found out that you are talking about a PVR. I was thinking it was a web site you were uploading to.
You may be able to send mpeg files. I don't know where the .ts extension comes from. The spec sheet I read says it will play mpeg2 and mp4 files.

You may also want to resize and pad the video so it is a legal 16/9 format. If you use the "-aspect 16:9" argument, ffmpeg may adjust the pixel aspect ratio. Maybe this would be enough.

ok here is how it works well

i just tested

ffmpeg -y -threads 2 -i "input.avi" -ab 128k -b 2500k -r 25 -maxrate 8000k -bufsize 1000k -vcodec mpeg2video -s 4cif -acodec mp2 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 "output.ts"

with thanks to
Jose Catre-Vandis

Regards

And I recommend against advertising in the forums against rules. And that's a Mac and Windows-only product, so posting it here does nothing to help the original poster with their question.

Thread reported.

I don't think any "containing" is involved. "Dreambox" is used as a sort of a generic term within the DVB FTA satellite community. All three of my satellite receivers record files with a .ts suffix. Some can be played directly by VLC or SMplayer, while others can't without first migrating them into a common container format.