MPEG Transport Stream

File Format
Name	MPEG Transport Stream
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Video MPEG Transport Stream
Extension(s)	.ts, others
PRONOM	fmt/585
Released	1996

MPEG Transport Stream (or MPEG-2 Transport Stream) is an MPEG multimedia format that allows interleaving more than one Packetized Elementary Stream in a single file. It is an alternative to MPEG Program Stream, designed to work better with certain kinds of streaming. It was introduced in the MPEG-2 standard.

There is a variant format named M2TS, used with Blu-ray discs.

Identification

The byte value 0x47 occurs at offset 0, 188, 376, etc. (every 188 bytes).

Specifications

• ISO/IEC 13818-1:2018 - MPEG 2 Part 1 (not free to download)

Software

• VLC

Sample files

• https://samples.ffmpeg.org/archive/container/mpegts/ (Search the index for more.)

Links

• Wikipedia: MPEG transport stream