P. Syriac » .mts http://psyriac.com Noise Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:29:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Tinkering with AVCHD http://psyriac.com/2008/12/07/tinkering-with-avchd/ http://psyriac.com/2008/12/07/tinkering-with-avchd/#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:00:42 +0000 Punnen Syriac http://psyriac.com/?p=768 After months of staring wistfully from outside camera stores, I finally went ahead and bought the Canon Vixia HF10 (uhuh, High Def).  Shooting has been a somewhat humbling experience but I’ll get there. Sooner or later.

Moving files around has been a tad tricky so I thought I’d document (sort of) what I did.

Linux:

If the device doesn’t mount, try ‘dmesg‘

# mkdir /camera
#mount /dev/sdb1 /camera
#cd /camera

MPlayer supports AVCHD (.mts) files, but you’ll need to compile MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html) from source.

Windows:

Couldn’t  install the proprietary software that comes with the camera because my netbook doesn’t support the minimumm resolution. So I had to convert the .mts files to .avi.

First, install the AVISynth base and then this (mts_2_xvid.rar) . Unpack the .rar file and copy the .mts files from the camera into the folder and run the batch file _multi_demux_mts_Xvid.bat. That nifty little piece of code compresses the video to .avi and saves it in the same folder.

Trust me, it’s way simpler than it sounds.

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