** Summary changed: - Missing support for AVCHD (MTS/M2TS) + Broken support for AVCHD (MTS/M2TS)
** Description changed: - I suppose really this is more of a feature request ... + AVCHD is the de facto standard for HDV (high definition video) + camcorders and as such, Ubuntu users need a way to easily play, edit and + see thumbnails of videos created. - Hi Def video formats (i.e., MTS) are quickly becoming the de facto - standard for video camcorders and as such, Ubuntu users need a way to - play, edit and see thumbnails of videos created. Currently a user must - perform the following: + Most of the problem seems to be from the MPEG-TS demuxer in GStreamer + [mpegtsdemux] which needs to be fixed or rewritten to support random + access better, among other things. - 1) Download FFMPEG current at: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-checkout-snapshot.tar.bz2 - 2) Then compile/configure/install by running ./configure, make, make install - 3) Extract the audio from the m2ts file to output.wav using mplayer: - mplayer -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast:waveheader:file=output.wav xxx.m2ts - 4) Extract the video from the m2ts file to output.avi using ffmpeg - ffmpeg -i xxx.m2ts -vcodec mpeg2video -sameq -s 1920×1080 -r 23.976 -an -f avi -copyts -benchmark output.avi - 5) Create a final .avi file by merging the audio and video using mencoder - mencoder output.avi -o final.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -audiofile output.wav - - This is a lot of extra work to simply view files from your new - camcorder. Support therefore is required of: - - - MTS container format - - H.264 CODEC (including PAFF interlacing, current FFMPEG in Ubuntu gives this error when tying to do the above without downloading the current FFMPEG: "[h264 @ 0xb7e8fa68]PAFF interlacing is not implemented" ) - - 1920 X 1080 resolution - - The support for this would be required to offer Ubuntu users the following features: - - See thumbnails of their videos in Nautilus (just like they do with other formats such as AVI, MPEG, MOV, OGV, etc.) - - Play/view/hear MTS files in Totem (both video and audio) - - This would require incorporating bleeding edge FFMPEG into the distro. - It would be the next great step towards multimedia ubiquity within - Ubuntu (the next being a NLE app that works ... but that's another issue - altogether ;) + Video editing on Linux can't very far when the hi-def video standard + isn't well supported. This issue is becoming more and more important as + more video cameras are HD out of the box, and the prices for such + camcorders are falling. ** Also affects: hundredpapercuts Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Broken support for AVCHD (MTS/M2TS) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327872 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gstreamer0.10 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
