AVCHD (video camera) formatting under Linux

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hello,

Does anyone here have any experience converting .mts files (the high def 
video created by Canon, Sony and other makes -- also known as AVCHD) to 
to podcast-sized videos (mp4, flv, whatever) using open source tools?

I've been trying mencoder and ffmpeg, both with unsatisfying results. 
They can both read the mts format but produce files that are out of sync 
and/or missing frames.

Some of the web resources talking about this make reference to a package 
called 'xporthdmv' that I can't seem to find anywhere.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. At very least, are the opinions 
on ffmpeg vs mencoder for this kind of task?

Thanks!

- Evan


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