[ubuntu_studio] AVCHD converter

[trose]

I'm trying to use ubuntu-studio and I need to convert my AVCHD Panasonic HDC Camcorder files to something that studio can handle. I suppose MPEG. Panasonic includes software for windoze but I don't use windoze.

Does anyone know a decent OSS converter for linux? I've been searching the web for a couple hours. I tried to see if the latest ubuntu studio has converters included. From what I can tell they don't.
Thanks in advance, Tom

[metol]

ffmpeg is king here. I would assume it is included with the studio flavor of Ubuntu, if not you will find it in the repos. I just converted a 1080i AVCHD file yesterday with...

ffmpeg -i input.MTS -f mpeg -b 16M -deinterlace output.mpeg

If you have a 1080p recording, leave out the '-deinterlace' option. There is also a GUI interface for ffmpeg called 'WinFF'.

Regards,
Metol

[cotcot]

This is what I use:


mencoder (mplayer):

mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=1920:1080,harddup -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=8000:keyint=15:aspect=16/9:threads=4 00126.MTS -vf lavcdeint -ofps 25 -fps 50 -o 00126.mpg

Here is one for ffmpeg

 ffmpeg -i 00106.MTS -vcodec libxvid -b 18000k -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 320k -deinterlace -s 1920x1080 00106.avi

And to batch convert a set of avchd files I use this :

find ~/encode -name '*.MTS' -type f -exec mencoder '{}' -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=1920:1080,harddup -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=8000:keyint=15:aspect=16/9:threads=4 -vf lavcdeint -ofps 25 -fps 50 -o '{}'.mpg \;

[ilil]

I recommend Winff as nice GUI for FFmpeg. No spell with ffmpeg & mencoder now