How to convert .tsl video files from the Philips TV to a more common file format

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I have a Philips 6606H TV, which can record files onto my external hard drive via USB. The files are recorded into a .tsl file, which I have now copied to my Windows 7 PC hard drive.

Now, I want to open and convert the file, but I can't find any software that can open or convert the file into a format like .avi.

Any help is appreciated.

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Note that in an announcement on the Philips forums about being able to record they mentioned:

Saved Recordings will be encrypted and can only be decrypted with the same TV, so sharing movies will NOT be possible.

You can do this all via command line using `cat` and FFmpeg.

Unclear what OS you are on, but if you are using a Unix-like system — such as macOS or Linux — you have more options at your disposal; most all of them 100% free!

As per this answer for a similar question on Ask Ubuntu, you can use cat to concatenate the separate VOB files into one VOB file like this:

cat VTS_01_*.vob > output.vob

Then with that output.vob you can run a command like this; a fairly common FFmpeg command that will copy video streams without transcoding:

ffmpeg -i output.vob -codec copy output.avi

If that somehow doesn’t suit your needs, or you want to convert the video and audio to another format, then just read up on how to use FFmpeg and set command like options and just always use ffmpeg -I output.vob for your input.

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