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Format

M2TS

Summary

Name
M2TS
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1055
Format type
Video
Description
M2TS is the video stream packet format used on Blu-ray discs. M2TS is similar to fmt/585 - MPEG-2 Transport Stream, but instead features 192 byte packets, with a 4 byte TP_extra_header preceeding each 188 byte transport packet. Filenames usually take the form 'xxxxx.mts' or xxxxx.m2ts' where xxxxx represents a numeric value, beginning with 00000 and incrementing by 1 for each stream.
File extensions
mts, m2ts
Source
National Library of Scotland / National Library of Scotland
Developed by
Sony / Sony
Supported by
Sony / Sony

Internal signatures

M2TS

Note
BOF: offset 4, 0x47 sync byte appearing every 192 bytes from hereon. https://www.google.ch/patents/US7106946

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
4
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
47{191}47{191}47{191}47{191}47{191}47{191}47{191}47
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V91

    Release date
    25 July 2017

    M2TS: Signature developed with National Library of Scotland.

    M2TS: Full entry added. Submitted by National Library of Scotland. Additionally requested by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.