[FFmpeg-user] Tips for converting MTS to DVD/mp4

Gabri Nurtinaz Shally gabri.ns at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 03:14:42 CEST 2012


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On Jun 13, 2012 8:13 AM, "Marck Vaisman" <marck at vaisman.us> wrote:

> Thanks Alex. I'll try that out and see how it works.
>
> Here are some useful links I've found on the subject. I guess it's
> trial and error, although I am surprised that with all the information
> available on the subject there isn't a good how-to guide for these
> formats specifically.
>
> Cheers,
> Marck
>
>
> http://www.itc4u.net/home/67-linux-app-ffmpeg/110-ffmpeg-convert-avchd-mts-m2ts-to-h264.html
> http://howto-pages.org/ffmpeg/
>
> https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#x=ffmpeg&n=f92f404a-15bc-4171-831d-3f2bb7ef7619
>
> http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/11/how-to-convert-mts-video-files-avchd-to.html
>
> https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#x=ffmpeg&n=1b0be95d-f8a9-4cb2-9337-bcd549571212
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Alex Yelluas <ayelluas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Marck,
> >
> > I've been tackling the same problem for the past few days, i have Canon
> > hfs100 which produces similar MTS files (AVCHD). What I've been doing is
> > converting them to mp4 using libx264, with
> > these ffmpeg settings:
> >
> > ffmpeg -i file.MTS -vcodec libx264 -crf 20 -acodec ac3 -vf "yadif"
> > output_deinterlaced.mp4
> >
> > This should cut the original size by about 50%, while still providing
> > pretty high quality. You can play
> > with crf value, the smaller the value - the higher the video quality,
> and 0
> > is lossless. "yadif" is the de-interlacing filter.
> >
> > This is still work in progress for me, if you find a better solution,
> > please share :)
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Marck Vaisman <marck at vaisman.us> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I recently installed compiled and installed ffmpeg from source on
> >> Ubuntu following this guide:
> >> https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/UbuntuCompilationGuide
> >>
> >> I have many videos taped with a Canon VIXIA HF20 in MTS format. Most
> >> of the files have the following encoding:
> >>
> >> Input #0, mpegts, from 'acto.mts':
> >>  Duration: 00:22:23.36, start: 0.452000, bitrate: 24025 kb/s
> >>  Program 1
> >>    Stream #0:0[0x1011]: Video: h264 (High) (HDMV / 0x564D4448),
> >> yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 59.96 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn,
> >> 59.94 tbc
> >>    Stream #0:1[0x1100]: Audio: ac3 (AC[45]3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz,
> >> stereo, s16, 256 kb/s
> >>
> >> I'd like to convert these large MTS files into smaller mp4 for making
> >> DVDs (witout editing) and for sharing, and making them playable in
> >> machines with less resources. I'd like to keep the HD quality of the
> >> videos. I've searched extensively online and through the mailing list
> >> archive as well but I have yet to find the best set of parameters to
> >> do so.
> >>
> >> Has someone defined a profile to do this? What are the best set of
> >> ffmpeg parameters to achieve what I'd like to do?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help.
> >> Marck
> >>
> >> p.s. below is ffmpeg information on my system.
> >>
> >> ffmpeg version git-2012-06-02-1bf22c3 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the
> >> FFmpeg developers
> >>  built on Jun  2 2012 12:35:14 with gcc 4.6.1
> >>  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame
> >> --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb
> >> --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264
> >> --enable-nonfree --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab
> >>  libavutil      51. 56.100 / 51. 56.100
> >>  libavcodec     54. 23.100 / 54. 23.100
> >>  libavformat    54.  6.101 / 54.  6.101
> >>  libavdevice    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
> >>  libavfilter     2. 77.100 /  2. 77.100
> >>  libswscale      2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
> >>  libswresample   0. 15.100 /  0. 15.100
> >>  libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100
> >> Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
> >> usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile
> >> options] outfile}...
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