AVCHD files and HD-100

[Doug Goldberg]

Does anyone know if the the HD-100 will play high def video from my camcorder which is AVCHD (.mt2s) files. Its a version of H.264 which is popular with the newer camcorders

[valnar]

Originally Posted by Doug Goldberg

Does anyone know if the the HD-100 will play high def video from my camcorder which is AVCHD (.mt2s) files. Its a version of H.264 which is popular with the newer camcorders

Dunno.... but I'd like to know too before I buy one of those camcorders. If you have the camcorder, I have the HD100. Can you send a small 20 second sample? PM me.

Robert

[gplasky]

I think with the latest beta and the latest firmware (BETA)on the HD 100 it is suppose to work.

Gerry

[Doug Goldberg]

If anyone wants to test this the web is full of sample files. Just search for video from a Sony SR11/Sr12 or a canon HF10/HF100 They are full res (1080) files. I can send a sample also but Im not sure how big I can email

[valnar]

Originally Posted by Doug Goldberg

If anyone wants to test this the web is full of sample files. Just search for video from a Sony SR11/Sr12 or a canon HF10/HF100 They are full res (1080) files. I can send a sample also but Im not sure how big I can email

URL Link me a sample that you think would be an equivalent to your camcorder and I'll test tonight.

[Doug Goldberg]

Here is a link to a nice sample

http://dvinfo.net/media/canon/austin1.mts

[valnar]

It wouldn't recognize it with the default mts extension, so I tried a couple others (known trick to work with Sage). AVI, ts, mpg, etc. A couple of those extensions brought up the thumbnail properly in the extender, but none of them played properly. All I saw was a black screen and no audio.

Strange. It works in the Sage client. You may want to put in a trouble ticket.

-Robert

[Doug Goldberg]

Thanks for testing this. I think the issue is that the video processor in the HD-100 (8620) does not support decoding of this format. The newer part (8630 series) does. The newer part is in the PopcornHour, TVIX 6500 etc. Hopefully Sage will update the HW since I love the native WHS support.

[valnar]

Originally Posted by Doug Goldberg

Thanks for testing this. I think the issue is that the video processor in the HD-100 (8620) does not support decoding of this format. The newer part (8630 series) does. The newer part is in the PopcornHour, TVIX 6500 etc. Hopefully Sage will update the HW since I love the native WHS support.

Yah, knowing that the Sigma 8630 was available when Sage made the HD100 kinda upsets me too. I have three of the extenders, and would need to replace them all.

Oh well, an STX-HD200 would keep the money flowing to Sage...

Robert

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by Doug Goldberg

Here is a link to a nice sample

http://dvinfo.net/media/canon/austin1.mts

Hey, I checked out that sample in MediaInfo and it says that it's using a Blu-ray M2TS container. You may be able to use tsmuxer to remux it into a normal TS or M2TS container. It may just be the container that Sage or the HD100 is choking on. Heck, you may even try demuxing it and putting it into an MKV container. That might be better. My own personal experience with transport stream containers in Sage has not been very good.

[valnar]

OK. Tsmuxer saw the H264 and AC3 streams. I muxed it to a standard .ts file and it still did not work. Then I demuxed and and muxed it into a .mkv file with MKVmerge gui. That worked fine - video and sound. I couldn't fast forward or rewind though. Both attempts made it start from the beginning again, so it may need some kind of indexes created (sorry, not a MKV expert).

It took only 3 seconds for each of these operations on a 100Mb file since there is no transcoding, so at least that is some good news too. Doug, while you may not be able to keep your AVCHD m2ts files in their native format, scripting something to mux it to a MKV file should be pretty easy.

Robert

[Taddeusz]

AFAIK, there are two different types of m2ts files. The kind made to be Blu-ray compatible and then otherwise. You may try to create a non-BD m2ts file and see if that works.