Remux TV Progs to Matroska Video .mkv

[Computing]

Hi, I just require 'standard' codec and bitrate, what ever they may be.

I was trying to avoid the lossy conversion to .mp4, so would prefer 
going directly to .mkv, which is not lossy.

Martin
Please note, I'm away for the next week or so

On 10/07/2022 13:00, Mr.G wrote:
 > Martin
 > If you included an example pid of a program that might help. As 
others have said TS (Transport Stream)   ,MP4  and MKV are containers 
for audio and video formats. The codec and bitrate will determine the 
quality.
 > I tend to use H264 as H265 requires much more runtime CPU and things 
like my Fire stick won't play them reliably. I use MP3 for audio.
 > So what quality are you wishing to achieve That might be a good 
starting point then
 >
 > https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modes
 >
 > G.
 >
 > On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 at 22:45, Computing <computing at windcheetah.org.uk> 
wrote:
 >
 >     Hi, I'm trying to get programmes from the Beeb into .mkv format.
 >
 >     I know you can do it by using --command-tv='ffmpeg -i 
"<filename>" -c:v
 >     copy -c:a copy  -y "<dir>/<fileprefix>.mkv"'
 >
 >     but it still downloads the raw .ts file, converts it to a .mp4, 
tags it,
 >     then converts to a .mkv as required.
 >
 >     Is there a way to do download  .ts, convert to .mkv, tag .mkv?? I.E.
 >     Avoid the mp4 lossy conversion??
 >
 >     Thanks loads
 >
 >     Martin
 >
 >
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