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My TS files are playing very choppy on VLC. The file comes from an online educations summit. I have not been able to change settings in VLC to get smooth playback.

However, when I convert the TS files to AVI, they seem to have the same quality of video and audio, and VLC plays them smoothly.

1) First, can anyone offer advice on what settings to alter to get smooth TS playback? I've seen some references for turning off High Quality Audio Resampling, but I think this setting was available on older versions, not 3.0.3.
2) I'm not that versed in video and audio format files. I'm curious what I'm loosing by converting from TS to AVI. The avi files are smaller, so I assume that some quality is lost. For my current use, this is irrelevant. However, I'm curious if anyone can shed light on this?
3) Is there a way to know what quality of file is inside the TS file?
4) Is there a "best" format to convert the TS file to in order to obtain the same quality converted files?

Thanks,

Hi,

can you provide the logs when you're in the choppy playback situation ?
For 2), AVI is not a format with good properties compared to the others from what I've heard.

For 3), you can use <ctrl+j> to get the informations of the played media from VLC.

For 4), there is no best format for a file but there are best format depending on how you want to use it. I believe you can use matroska is this situation though. Demuxing and remuxing without changing the inner codec will not alter the quality of the stream.

Thank you!!!

Operating System: Windows 7 64bit
VLC Version 3.0.3 Vetinari
this is the codec in the TS file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vz8gy64ypk5mn ... 1.png?dl=0

Any idea?

What produced this file?

I downloaded from a website using IDM

Your IDM software is broken.

How do you know this? Playback of same files through plex has zero issues.

Can I upload for a sample file for review?

Sure.

Donna Gates - Candida Summit.TS:
http://gofile.me/6xN6p/yAc3l1stL

Broken stream. PCR every 3 seconds

You can play it in VLC with --demux avformat option.

sorry, what is PCR?

is --demux avformat available in android app?

how do i access this function on desktop?

thanks

Never got a response to question above. Interestingly, I took the same TS file and converted it via wondershare to a hvec mp4 file. Everyone of the converted files plays fine. So, it don't understand the TS file being bad, if it can still produce perfect audio and video in another format. Still puzzled.

I am facing the same issue. TS video is choppy. The issue started when I upgraded to latest VLC from 2.2. The same video was played in both the versions. Was downloaded through IDM.

converting to another format works fine for me. Advice above wasn't helpful, unfortunately.

For .ts files stored on and streamed from a Windows machine, copy ffmpeg.exe to windows\system32; create a .bat file containing {for %%f in (*.ts) do call ffmpeg -i "%%~f" -vcodec copy -acodec copy "%%~nf.mp4"} (omit the brackets) in folder containing .ts files. Run the .bat file - takes just a few minutes to create .mp4 copy of .ts, video and audio quality equal to original, which streams nicely to Android VLC and to WDTV Live.

Not sure if this is still necessary or not but I was having issues getting my audio to not be choppy even though video was fine. I could also use a third party program to convert to mp4 and it played back fine, and I also downloaded with IDM and have avoided many streaming video .ts files because of it. I hate to waste disk space and I'm lazy so I didn't like the extra step. What I found mostly corrected my issues with them in my specific case anyway. I'm using a Windows 10 desktop too, and I don't use it on my phone so I'm not sure if the menu options are the same. I also just updated to the most recent version as of this post date. But here goes:

Open VLC and navigate to the 'Tools' menu. For me it's just at the top bar of the program.

Click on 'Preferences' option.

Switch the option 'Show settings' from 'Simple' to 'All' (It may say something like 'Full preferences view' instead of 'All').

Click on 'Input / Codecs' for drop-down menu.

Click on 'Demuxers' for drop-down menu.

Select MPEG-TS codec to change options.

Under the Extra PMT section I have an option for 'Trust in-stream PCR' with a checkbox that is checked by default. If I deselect/disable that it seems to correct the choppy audio.

My theory would be that during download with IDM, during the append process when it puts all the parts it's separately downloaded back together it can sometimes not line all of the pieces back up perfectly, and this manifests itself in data that the codec has trouble translating, making it repeat back incorrect video or sound data, resulting in choppiness. But I'm no expert. I just played around with tons of settings and kept resetting to default when I changed too many at once.

*Just adding, I think the PCR is a sort of alignment for the seperate audio and video files in a .ts video, and when the codec trusts the alignment that isn't quite right when downloading in this fashion it results in "errors" of a sort. It can limp forward with the choppy effects, but when it runs it's own calibration tests it corrects for the errors, but codec algorithms are still a bit out of my expertise.

Hope this helps someone! Good luck!