The app is called nPlayer free: Ĭonfusingly enough, there's another app called nPlayer, which is not free, uses an almost identical icon, but seems to be a completely different app with a different look and feel, and from a different developer.Īnyway, nPlayer free plays the video perfectly fine after uploading the video via iTunes File Sharing. I've found that the files can be played fine in a third-party app. I've got a question open for this here: Is there a way to show import errors in iTunes? The resulting file can be previewed in QuickTime or in Finder, but it can't be imported into iTunes for some reason. for i in *.ts doįfmpeg -i $i -c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 384k -strict -2 -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:1 $(basename -s. This takes about 2 minutes per 3.5 GB file, it's pretty fast.
The video is simply copied without any additional re-encoding. The target format is mp4, and only the second audio channel is converted to AAC. This can be done in one step using ffmpeg (installed through Homebrew), loop it for all. Is this what I'm seeing here?Īfter some fiddling, I've found one way to watch the video on the iPad.Ĭhanging the container and the audio encoding I've read about the moov atom and its placement in the file, and the problems with ffmpeg to place it in the right location. The resulting file plays fine in QuickTime, but can't be imported into iTunes. It converted the file, copying the video, and re-encoding the audio to AAC. I've tried the following using ffmpeg (installed through Homebrew):įfmpeg -i in.ts -c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 384k -strict -2 -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:1 out.mp4
Here's some data about the file in question: ts video file on my harddrive, and I would like to transfer it to my iPad to watch it there.