I'm using Audacity 2.1.3 to edit MPEG-TS files which have come from recording radio programmes on a DVB-S2 satellite receiver. Operating system is Windows 10.
I find that although the files open, the audio does not begin at 0 in the timeline, but is offset so that it starts at approximately 1 or 2 hours along. If I immediately save the file to another format, I get an hour or so of silence followed by the expected audio. The actual offset seems to vary from file to file.
Obviously I can edit the silence out but it is a bit of a nuisance.
At first I thought it must be something wrong with my installation but I've tried a fresh install on a different machine and get exactly the same effect.
I've never had this problem with other file formats, only these transport streams. I'm wondering whether Audacity is being confused by some internal timestamps within the file. Is there any way to force the audio to start at time zero?
Opening MPEG-TS files - audio is offset in timeline
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
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Re: Opening MPEG-TS files - audio is offset in timeline
You didn't mention the special FFMpeg software add-on. Do you have the latest one compatible with Audacity 2.1.3?
Native Audacity will only open a relatively small list of files, but if you install FFMpeg, the list grows a lot. Audacity may have trouble knowing what a Transport Stream is, but is guessing at it anyway.
http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
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Koz
Native Audacity will only open a relatively small list of files, but if you install FFMpeg, the list grows a lot. Audacity may have trouble knowing what a Transport Stream is, but is guessing at it anyway.
http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
Scroll down.
Koz
Re: Opening MPEG-TS files - audio is offset in timeline
Oh yes, I have the FFMpeg library installed. Audacity is not much use to me without it. It is definitely needed to open MPEG-TS.kozikowski wrote:You didn't mention the special FFMpeg software add-on. Do you have the latest one compatible with Audacity 2.1.3?
Koz
I just follow the installation instructions from the "Library" section of "Preferences". It currently reports the version as
F(55.33.100),C(55.52.102),U(52.66.100)
I also have LAME 3.99.3 but I don't believe that is relevant to the current issue.
Re: Opening MPEG-TS files - audio is offset in timeline
I have given up on this problem. I have switched to using the raw command line version of ffmpeg to transcode my MPEG-TS files. It turns out to be orders of magnitude faster anyway.
Re: Opening MPEG-TS files - audio is offset in timeline
What is the command that you are using?m1maj wrote: I have switched to using the raw command line version of ffmpeg to transcode my MPEG-TS files.
Do you have an example file that we could try so that we can take a look at what may be going wrong?
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