Converting TiVo .ts to H.264/5

DeepDish1433 · 1st October 2021, 00:41

Hi all,

I apologize in advance for the likely rookie-ness of this question.

Is there a good post/guide or general advice anyone could direct me towards on converting TiVo content to H.264/H.265?

I do this currently by:
- export (HD) content from TiVo with kmttg
- Convert .ts file with Handbrake

and it works decently well, though I never feel like I'm getting as good of compression levels as I should, which makes me wonder if there are aspects of the video I'm not properly handling in my encode.

I know the .ts files can have errors in them and kmttg has an option to remove errors which seems to work. I also do realize TiVo video is interlaced and I use the deinterlace options when encoding in Handbrake. But if there are other/better tools or workflows I should be using I'd really appreciate any help you could point me towards.

Thank you in advance.

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DeepDish1433 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2021 Posts: 5	Converting TiVo .ts to H.264/5 Hi all, I apologize in advance for the likely rookie-ness of this question. Is there a good post/guide or general advice anyone could direct me towards on converting TiVo content to H.264/H.265? I do this currently by: - export (HD) content from TiVo with kmttg - Convert .ts file with Handbrake and it works decently well, though I never feel like I'm getting as good of compression levels as I should, which makes me wonder if there are aspects of the video I'm not properly handling in my encode. I know the .ts files can have errors in them and kmttg has an option to remove errors which seems to work. I also do realize TiVo video is interlaced and I use the deinterlace options when encoding in Handbrake. But if there are other/better tools or workflows I should be using I'd really appreciate any help you could point me towards. Thank you in advance.