How to Convert and Play PVR Decoders Protected TS and PS Files?

The PVR decoder is a personal video recorder that can do the following things for live TV viewer:
- Record 150 hours of standard TV or 50 hours of HD TV
- View one, record one simultaneously
- Pause live TV programming for up to two hours
- Rewind live TV programming
- Fast forward
- View in slow motion
- XtraView capability

PVR Decoder

Want to get full entertainment of all those recording programs not only on your PVR decoders but also on your PC, smartphone or tablets? The following article will focus on the topic of playing and converting files on PVR decoders.

What file formats can be recorded by PVR decoders?

Before going any further, let's first at a glance at PVR decoders recorded file formats. After extensive research, users find that most if not all PVR decoders use the same file format TS or PS to record. However, during the process of recording, the individual decoders may change the encryption and extension of these recorded videos. Therefore after recording on a qsat decoder, you get something like filename.tsv while on a tlink you get filename.ts. The encryption of qsat is stronger than that of tlink.

Convert and Play TS and PS files on PVR Decoder

From the extensive research conducted by Lemmy Morgan, we find that only six video converter including Bigsoftsoft Total Video Converter, iDealshare VideoGo, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, WinAVI Video Converter, Tipart TS Converter has the ability to convert unencrypted TS file. However, none of them can convert the strict encrypted TS files recorded on a qsat decoder to a common video file. The good news is that you can use Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate a paid program to convert the ts files from tlink decoder to MP4 or other popular file format while also preserver its good image quality.

For those people who wish to save more money, you can just download Pavtube Video Converter (best video converter review) which cost only $35 (Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate will cost your $65 for the additional commercial Blu-ray/DVD ripping and copying function), the program can do a good job in convert protected TS files recorded by tlink recorder to not only MP4 but also other popular file formats according to your own needs. If you wish to transfer and play the converted PVR decorder files on specific smartphone or tablets, the program also faciliates you to directly output device preset profile formats.

Customize and edit PVR decorder TS files

To get better playback quality of TS file on devices or programs, you can flexibly adjust the output video codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution and audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels, etc. The built-in full editing package of the program enables you to trim or cut video files to remove unwanted parts or segments, crop video to remove the unwanted black bars or area, add image/video/transparent text watermark to video, apply special rendering effect to video, flip or rotate video angel, remove/replace audio in video, add external srt/ass/ssa subtitles to video, split large video into small clips by file size, count or length or merge separate video into one file.

For Mac users, please download Pavtube Video Converte for Mac to convert PVR decoder TS files on Mac OS X El Capitan or macOS Sierra.

How to Convert PVR Decoder TS Files for Playing on Computer, Smartphone or Tablets?

Step 1: Load protected TS files into the program.

Install and launch TS video converter program on your computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from Folder" to load encrypted TS files into the program.

Step 2: Choose output file formats.

Click "Format", from its drop-down option, choose one of the device compatible file formats to output such as "H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)" under "HD Video" main category.

Step 3: Adjust output profile settings.

Click "Settings" on the main interface to open "Profile Settings" window to tweak the output video codec, bit rate, sample rate, resolution, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels to make them fit with your devices or programs.

Step 4: Edit TS video.

Check an item to active the "Video Editor" function, then click the pencil like icon on the top tool bar to open the "Video Editor" window, you can trim video length, crop video black bars, add watermark, apply sepcial rendering effect, remove/replace audio in video, etc.

Step 5: Start the conversion process.

After all setting is compelted, press the "Convert" button in the right-bottom and the TS video to H.264 HD video conversion process will start automatically.

When the conversion is over, click "Open output folder" to pop out the converted files, you will then have no problem to play PVR decoder files on any devices as you like.

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