AVCHD (video camera) formatting under Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:57:00PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 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?

Does transcode work any better?

No idea really, I have never had to do this.

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