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I have several HD video files in transport stream (.ts) format, recorded with my satellite receiver.

I want to cut them, as in simply remove a few minutes from the beginning, the end and sometimes a few minutes in the middle of it (remove early start of recordings, late ends and, for some seldom files, the ads).

What is a good, ideally but not necessarily free, software with a GUI to do this? Best would be something where you could select points on a timeline and simply cut the elements out.

As a resulting file, just the same .ts format would be great, but I could also live with putting the video contents into another container, as long as the video is NOT re-encoded / transcoded.

The files have additional audio streams and subtitles. These should be retained in the process.

My OS is Windows.

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Would be great if you mentioned your OS. And, what have you already tried? I believe most NLEs should work, only importing the TS format might be a bit troublesome. You might need to change the container before. Can you run MediaInfo to check what codec is used inside? – slhck Jan 27 '12 at 18:23
Oh, and you don't want to re-encode anything in this process? – slhck Jan 27 '12 at 18:25
OS is Windows (added above), and if possible I want to avoid re-encoding, because I don't want to loose quality. - What does NLE stand for? – Sebastian P.R. Gingter Jan 27 '12 at 18:28
I'm inclined to say this is an almost exact duplicate of What is the best software to split and join avi files? — you'd only have to find out how to import the transport stream. NLE is a non-linear editor. – slhck Jan 27 '12 at 18:30

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