Merging *.ts Files

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Merging *.ts Files

Post by Kat »

As this question came up in the tracker section with the London HD files, I thought posting it here might be usefull...

If you somehow end up with having several *.ts (transport stream) files you want to merge into one big file, this is by far the easiest way:
  • Start - Run - type "cmd" (without the quotes ;) )
  • use the cd command to get into the folder the files that need merging are located in, e.g. cd My Documents (the command "dir" gives you a list of all files and folders located in the folder you are in, if you need to see them)
  • Once you are in the folder needed, type "copy /b source_part_xxx.ts+source_part_xxx.ts+source_part_xxx.ts+... target.ts" (once again without the quotes)
  • Hit enter, grab a nice cup of coffee and wait for Windows to perform the merging
Example for how the whole command thingy looked like on those LiveEarth files for me:
Start-Run-cmd (enter ^_^ )
cd my documents (enter)
cd metliveearth (enter)
dir (enter)
copy /b part01.ts+part02.ts+part03.ts+...part51.ts MetLiveEarthMerged.ts (enter)

A gallon of coffee and 10 minutes later I ended up with one 4.88 GB file named MetLiveEarthMerged.ts in my source folder... easy as...
Last edited by Kat on Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:05 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Merging *.ts Files

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did u check out if the trasition from what used to be the end of say the first TS file to the second TS file is OK. I tried something similar a while back but when I looked into the full 4GB files where the first old TS file goes into the second TS file there was a kinda hick-up. Same with the transition from the 2nd to the 3rd file etc. etc.
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Re: Merging *.ts Files

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I do not have any "hick-ups", never had them when merging files...