[vlc] Re: VLC TS ratio ?

[Måns Rullgård]

James Yates <james.yates at packetvision.com> writes:

>  From what I have seen of VLC after looking through the code, VLC no
>  longer supports constant Bitrate TS. So no NULL packet padding of the
>  stream is done, thus the bitrate of the stream changes
>  constantly. Look at the shaping_delay parameter within the
>  code. Sometime ago, VLC appeared to output constant bitrate TS but a
>  major re-write of the muxer was made and it now only supports
>  variable bitrate. Unless anyone disagrees.

This is very unfortunate.  Many applications require a constant
bitrate TS.

>    I was trying to do exactly the same as this. My solution, take VLC,
>    rip the part of the DVD either on the fly or to a VOB file. Get VLC
>    to generate an MPEG2 ps. You can then use another programme to
>    generate a constant bitrate TS. VLC is great but MPEG2 TS support
>    isn't so you will have to find another solution. I use a windows
>    programme called Transmux from pixeltools.com which is a really
>    good muxer. There are lots of open source equivalents though.

There are not that many open source TS muxers that actually get it
right.  Would you name a couple?

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru at inprovide.com

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