[Matroska-users] Can mkvtoolnix remux an .mpg or .ts?

[Grant]

> Hey,
>
> On Friday 27 February 2009, Grant wrote:
>
>> I can't seem to get mkvmerge to remux an .mpg or .ts to .mkv like this:
>>
>> mkvmerge -o video.mkv video.mpg
>>
>> Should that work?  I've also tried demuxing to separate stream files
>> with ffmpeg and muxing with mkvmerge but there are a/v sync issues.
>
> mkvmerge only supports MPEG program streams and elementary
> streams. Usually the extension .mpg is used for program streams, but
> the extension is not relevant -- mkvmerge detects the file type from its
> contents.
>
> VOB and EVOB files are almost always program streams.
>
> .ts is usually used for MPEG transport streams. These are not supported
> by mkvmerge, but they should be detected as such and an error message
> should indicate that a file is a transport stream (instead of the
> generic error message that the file type could not be detected).
>
> Kind regards,
> Mosu

OK, is there a way to convert the transport streams to program
streams?  Alternatively, is there a way to demux to elementary streams
that will allow mkvmerge to mux without a/v sync issues?

- Grant