TS Video Files
Explained in Plain English

TS is the format used to broadcast high-definition TV. You can play TS files on your computer with VLC, which runs on many different kinds of computers and is free.

Burning TS files for playback on a DVD player is a problem. If you know of a free program that can do so, please let us know by clicking the support link at the right and sending email to the address at the bottom of that page.

There is a program called HDTVtoMPEG2 that is supposed to convert TS files to MPEG files, which could then be burned on a DVD, however the program hasn't been updated since 2002 and may not work for you.

Video Redo is a Windows program that handles TS files, though we have not tested it.