As with any digital video, an AVI file can be converted into an alternate format like TS. An acronym for transport stream, a file in the TS format is encoded to store MPEG-2 compressed video that is ...
Chances are the MKV file is AVC and the TS file is MPEG2. That's where the difference in decode power comes from. You can't convert without a very lossy and time-consuming transcode. My suggestion: ...