AVCHD (video camera) formatting under Linux

[John Myshrall]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 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
>
>
Here is a good article. 
http://wesleybailey.com/articles/m2tstoavi-avchd   I've used this and it 
works great. You can easily convert to what ever you like from there. I 
actually converted my neighbors HD movies from his vacation with it.  
Uncompressed files really take up a lot of space though.

I'm currently now trying to figure out the community version "CV" of 
Cinelerra because I want to edit in HD then covert if necessary 
http://cvs.cinelerra.org/ 

HTH

John


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