[solved]Video Editing Software which can handle AVCHD-format

unknown_user · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 2

Hi,

Does anyone know a software which is able to convert or edit ".mts" or ".m2ts" files ?
I already tried Cinelerra, Kino and avidemux, but without any success

If no software directly supports AVCHD-videos, is there a way to convert these files into a format,
which can be loaded by Cinelerra ?

I got a Sony HDR-SR5E as a present, and just do not want to install a windows,
only because of my video-encoding problem.

thx,
unknown

cjubon · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject:

yngwin · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

Avidemux should be able to handle that. Check your useflags.
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unknown_user · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 2

Thanks for your support and your hint, that kdenlive can edit mts-files.

After several attempts to find a stable and working solution for my video-editing
problem - I found out that kdenlive works best for my needs.

For everyone who has the same problem like me and wants to use kdenlive-
here is a short version of an install-guide:

As you need a current version of ffmpeg to have an AVCHD-support,
-add "ffmpeg-svn" to your overlays

cjubon · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

E001754 · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I emerged ffmpeg ("ffmpeg-20071223") from layman "ffmpeg-svn" as you told to do, then I reemerged kdenlive 0.4 but still kdenlive tells me that the .mts is not supported when I'm trying to add a new clip in a new project.
Any idea ?
Is there any more recent version from kdenlive that could handle h264 / AVCHD ??

Thanks

cjubon · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject:

E001754 · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject:

I re-emerged all the components (mts, mts++, ffmpeg and kdenlive).
ffmpeg come from ffmpeg-svn overlay.
kdenlive is the 0.5 ebuild from bugzilla.

The result is that kdenlive crashes straight after the launch. I can only the splash-screen of kdenlive and that's it... :cry:

Hope the 0.5 will join the official tree fast, so I can manage the rush I'm currently making...

Any ideas welcome to solve my crash, but anyway, thanks a lot for the help so far.

cjubon · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

E001754 · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject:

I still crash.
I only managed to launch kdenlive but it crashed quite straight after any first click.
I've never seen such unstable program. It so unstable that it feels impossible that the developpers of kdenlive have released such a crashing program. Therefore, something is wrong on my computer, but what ?

Would have any clues for grabbing the program from svn ? As I'm not a developper, I don't figure out how to get cvs build from kdenlive repository.

Thanks a lot for the help so far anyway.

cjubon · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject:

E001754 · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:39 am Post subject:

I still got issues :

cjubon · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:13 am Post subject:

Wow, congratulations, you're on the way! First self compiled programme :-D

.

I got the same errors on my first try, but I ran cmake as root (you did so as well, didn't you?). The root PATH, however, doesn't include the KDE PATHs. Thats why I suggested to do the first steps as normal user.

Anyhow, before you continue, you should install one more little package that is needed as well, and that is probably not on your system:

E001754 · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject:

E001754 · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

Reading around the forums, there is a way to better understand what happens :

cjubon · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:58 am Post subject:

E001754 · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject:

I emerged the latest xorg-server stable version available (1.3.0.0-r5) and there is the same bugs output. Nothing changed.
I checked also the sdl flag, but my previous xorg-server install was already using SDL use flag.

I'll go on kdenlive forum to see if some developper around can have relevant clues to that problem. I guess this is not unsolvable after all...

I'll keep in touch here to post the answer, in case some unfortunate gentooer goes in the same problems as we do.
Perhaps, after all that, should we update a page in gentoo wiki ??

EDIT : the kdenlive forum post is here : http://www.kdenlive.org/bbforum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=460

linuxtuxhellsinki · l33t Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 700 Location: Hellsinki

E001754: I checked those errors which you posted and it seems like to me that you've to fix those packages which the libraries belongs either by re-emerging 'em or emerging newer versions by adding 'em to /etc/portage/package.keywords .

E001754 · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject:

no more luck, but your idea was good.

Still got the crash. I emerged the 3 ebuilds, adding them in /etc/portage/package.keywords to be sure to get the latest version, but still no luck as it crashes the same way...

mona- · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 40

Hi, E001754

I had same problem and solved it right now.

I re-emerged libxcb,ffmpeg,mlt, and mlt++,
then kdenlive start up normally.

E001754 · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your answer mona-, but I currently gave my computer to my parents and I take their old one (one 1 Ghz athlon with some integrated video adapter of 8 years old), so I'm not able currently to test kdenlive, almost so that I setup Suse on that rig.
However, as soon as I get my new rig with Q9450 and some high-end radeon GFX, I'll get back on rails on compiling kdenlive on a gentoo box.

If nothing works, I'll switch to Suse 10.3 which has kdenlive 0.6 available and which seems to be able to handle AVHCD.
However, this annoys me because I really would like to stay on Gentoo even if I've being surprised by the quality of Suse Linux.

Ninpo · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 37

E001754 · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject:

Ok guys, I'm back on rails with my new rig (Q9550 / ATI HD 4870) and I want to eat some m2ts files !! :twisted:

I've read on Kdenlive main page that AVCHD is still not handled but will come soon.
For now, I'd just like to convert my m2ts files in a SD format, that'll be enough.

I've read over some googled pages that for converting m2ts files in SD format (AVI for example), I would need "xporthdmv" and "ldecod" programs. However, I haven't been able to find those files for Gentoo. There's seems to have no ebuilds to satisfy that name.
Has anyone an idea of that ??

Thanks in advance for your help

Zubziro · Apprentice Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 248 Location: Sweden

E001754 · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject: