unable to determine file format for TS transport stream

[WaldoMonster]

I get "unable to determine file format" on all my large transport stream files.
I have used a 64bit operating system that supports large integers in PHP.
The error message is the same with two different progragam's I have use to rip the dvd's: MPEG streamclip & VLC.
Any idea what caused this problem?

[James Heinrich]

MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 video support is very limited in getID3(). I've somehow never found good workable documentation to fully support these formats properly.

If you can send me the first 100kB or 500kB of the file I can try taking a look and see if it's something obvious, but no promises.

[WaldoMonster]

MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 video support is very limited in getID3(). I've somehow never found good workable documentation to fully support these formats properly.

If you can send me the first 100kB or 500kB of the file I can try taking a look and see if it's something obvious, but no promises.

Because I coudn't uploud the files on the forum I have send you a mail.

I used this litle script to get the first 500 k:

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$data = file_get_contents ('/data/Video/Music/LIVE - LIVE at the Paradiso (2008).ts',null, null, null, 500*1024);
file_put_contents('/data/first_500k_02.ts', $data);

Can this also be done from the console?

[James Heinrich]

Can this also be done from the console?

On Windows, not easily. On *nix, see head (also tail is related). e.g. head -c512000

[WaldoMonster]

On Windows, not easily. On *nix, see head (also tail is related). e.g. head -c512000

Thanks, that is very helpful!
I'm using Linux just for a half year ;-)

[James Heinrich]

That's half a year more than me ;)

[angleblue63]

ut what about other opensource projects such as ffmpeg? They tend to correctly detect the width x height of FLV files when I convert FLV to MPEG-4 for example?

[James Heinrich]

ut what about other opensource projects such as ffmpeg?

What about it?