Using an HD camcorder with Linux
This tutorial stream is for people who like to use shell scripts to organize their things.
The first tutorial has some helpful tips how to transform AVCHD footage recorded as MPEG transport streams (.MTS or .m2ts) into h264 compressed AVI format with minimized loss in quality. The output can be uploaded directly to XR or played on standard computers.
The second tutorial helps you to automatically import, sort and convert the recordings from your camcorder.
You know the problem: once the HDD of your camcorder has run full, it is messy to sort all the videos out and convert them into the correct format. But never surrender to chaos! There is hope... A litte shell script that automatically copies, sorts and converts (with my mts2avi.sh script from my
It is essential to concatenate the MTS files that were recorded in one
go (i.e. the files that were created between "start recording" and
"stop recording" on the camcorder). As they are essentially dumped
streams and cut to size (usually <2GB) by the camcorder, you get
into trouble if you try to convert
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