Re: Convert .ts to .avi

seeing that the footage is already H.264 and AAC, you could simply repack the media into a different container.

$ ffmpeg -i input.ts -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.mkv

But this will not make it smaller.....

The reduce the size as well, try:

$ ffmpeg -i input.ts -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -b 5000k -acodec libfaac -ab 192k output.mkv

This should make it about a third of the size of the original which reports at around 15000k.

Michael