I’m digitizing vhs tapes with a Hauppauge Colossus capture card and Mediaportal on windows 7. They’re captured as .ts files and the .ts files play well, with no sign of corruption.

But I’d like to convert them to .mkv (losslessly from the .ts), and ffmpeg (version 2023-08-28-git-b5273c619d-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev) fails at this. I use

ffmpeg.exe -i test.ts -c copy test.mkv

and get these errors repeated many times

[mpegts @ 00000000003d6d40] Packet corrupt (stream = 0, dts = 46105).
[mpegts @ 00000000003d6d40] Packet corrupt (stream = 0, dts = 49107).
[h264 @ 00000000003fc580] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
    Last message repeated 1 times
[h264 @ 00000000003fc580] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 00000000003fc580] no frame!
...etc...
[in#0/mpegts @ 00000000003d6b80] corrupt input packet in stream 0
[mpegts @ 00000000003d6d40] Packet corrupt (stream = 0, dts = 247305).
...etc...

The resulting mkv file is much smaller than the .ts, and displays solid black in mpc-hc. Ffprobe gives the same errors and ends with

Input #0, mpegts, from 'test.ts':
  Duration: 00:24:26.80, start: 0.099956, bitrate: 4486 kb/s
  Program 137 
  Stream #0:0[0x30]: Video: h264 (Main) (HDMV / 0x564D4448), yuv420p(top first),
 720x480 [SAR 10:11 DAR 15:11], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn
  Stream #0:1[0x40]: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo,
 fltp, 188 kb/s

Ffmpeg seems to be complaining about corruption, though again the .ts files play fine. Is there some way to use ffmpeg to convert these files to mkv? Or is the problem with the capture setup?

Thanks!

I’m digitizing vhs tapes with a Hauppauge Colossus capture card and Mediaportal on windows 7. They’re captured as .ts files and the .ts files play well, with no sign of corruption.

But I’d like to convert them to .mkv (losslessly from the .ts), and ffmpeg (version 2023-08-28-git-b5273c619d-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev) fails at this. I use

ffmpeg.exe -i test.ts -c copy test.mkv

and get these errors repeated many times

[mpegts @ 00000000003d6d40] Packet corrupt (stream = 0, dts = 46105).
[mpegts @ 00000000003d6d40] Packet corrupt (stream = 0, dts = 49107).
[h264 @ 00000000003fc580] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
    Last message repeated 1 times
[h264 @ 00000000003fc580] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 00000000003fc580] no frame!
...etc...
[in#0/mpegts @ 00000000003d6b80] corrupt input packet in stream 0
[mpegts @ 00000000003d6d40] Packet corrupt (stream = 0, dts = 247305).
...etc...

The resulting mkv file is much smaller than the .ts, and displays solid black in mpc-hc. Ffprobe gives the same errors and ends with

Input #0, mpegts, from 'test.ts':
  Duration: 00:24:26.80, start: 0.099956, bitrate: 4486 kb/s
  Program 137 
  Stream #0:0[0x30]: Video: h264 (Main) (HDMV / 0x564D4448), yuv420p(top first),
 720x480 [SAR 10:11 DAR 15:11], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn
  Stream #0:1[0x40]: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo,
 fltp, 188 kb/s

Ffmpeg seems to be complaining about corruption, though again the .ts files play fine. Is there some way to use ffmpeg to convert these files to mkv? Or is the problem with the capture setup?

Thanks!