Transcode Videos with VLC

Pick up a video, any video and run it on VLC.

Go to Tools->Codec information and check the video and audio codecs.

If you want to change containers, for eaxmple from PS/VOD to TS, you will only need to demux and mux into a new container. But if there’s a weird audio codec for example, you might need to transcode the audio and can actually copy the video.

So Open VLC and then

1. Multimedia->Convert/save
2. Open the File you want to convert
3. Click Convert/Save for next
4. Select a TS profile
5. Edit that profile
6. Go to video and select “Keep the original video” to keep the original video content.
   • Beware that video codec needs to be compatible with TS containers in order to copy, instead of transcode
7.  Go to audio and check if its configured for transcoding
8. Save
9. Select output file
10. Press begin

And that’s all. VLC will start “Streaming” meaning, its remuxing, transcoding your file into the destination file.