How to open MPEG-TV recorded video format .ts files
Have you had trouble opening the ts file on your computer? What are ts files? We explain what they are and recommend software that we know will open them.
What is ts file?
A ts file extension is commonly used for recorded MPEG-TV video stream by various TV-DVB/DVD devices. A ts file is container format defined in MPEG2 Part 1, Systems. The ts files are playable in various media players such as Windows Media Player, VLC Player, MPlayer etc.
MPEG-TV recorded video format description
The ts file extension is used for MPEG-TV compressed video files, recorded with DVD recorders, or DVB receivers with recording options.
Video and audio data are stored in MPEG-2 multimedia file format defined in MPEG2 Part 1, Systems (ISO/IEC standard 13818-1). It is also known as ITU-T Rec. H.222.0.
The ts file format is container format that encapsulates packetized elementary streams with error correction and stream synchronization features. It is also popular to use in broadcast applications such as DVB and ATSC.
DVD and DVB recorders often save MPEG-TV recorded files as multiple files on a DVD medium, or hard drive like name1.ts, name2.ts, name3.ts, etc.
Suggested software to open ts file
VLC media player
One of the most popular multi-platfom multimeda player
Microsoft Windows Media Player
The default multimedia player from Microsoft Windows
There are other TS filename extensions with the same .ts suffix
ts - Qt translation source code
A ts file extension is related to the Qt translation source code files.