I have a Canon H100 video camera. This records high definition 1080p videos in a digital video format called AVCHD. It has been a pain to watch these videos. First of all, these videos don’t even play properly on my single core PC. My 3-4 year old PC is just not powerful enough. The video is choppy and jittery.. It is completely unwatachable. I have been watching these by copying the files to my camera and then connect it to my TV. If I had a PS3, I could take my memory card and plug it directly and watch these videos. But I don’t have a PS3. I normally use my legacy xbox which has XBMC installed, to watch and listen to my media. It sucks big time that I can’t watch my AVCHD videos through my xbox.
So the only way I can watch these AVCHD videos is to convert it to either an MPEG or AVI format. I know.. I know.. I am loosing video quality by down converting these videos… but till the time I can find a better way to watch these videos… thats what I am going to do. I did find a script at videohelp.com which was using some freeware tools.. But in my opinion the process was still painfull. My ideal tool would be to take these AVCHD files and either convert them to AVI/MPEG or to burn them to a DVD directly. Did I mention, I want this to be free too 
. You could also pay $50.00 for ConvertXtoDVD which does that for you.
Another option is to create an AVCHD DVD which will play directly on a blue ray player or a PS3. Scott Johnson, CEO of AtTask has a script on his blog which will create the DVD disc which will play on a blue ray player.
I got my camera in 2007 and in 2010 I have finally found a software which does the video conversion for me. It’s called Free HD Converter V1.6.
The software works on my old machine.. It’s not fast but I just batch all the videos and a couple of hours later, I have the converted MpEG files. I wish this tools would stitch the many generated mpeg files together too. Maybe it does and I haven’t found the setting! I can now burn a DVD from the Mpeg files and send the videos of my new born to my Mom or upload to YouTube directly!!
Next step is to convert all my AVCHD videos to MPEG. Now only if somebody could just do that for me too
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Fantastic experience enjoying AVCHD videos on XBMC
When we start building a home network with media server or HTPC, we will have a media center to manage the media files. I prefer XBMC Media Center as it is a free media player and works on different platforms like Windows, Mac, Linux and even Xbox. Actually, XBMC was originally created for Xbox.
XBMC helps playing CD/DVD media, and it supports streaming videos, audios and images via SMB, UPnP, DAAP shares. Let’s have a look at the formats supported by XBMC.
Container formats:
AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, FLV, Matroska, QuickTime, MP4, M4A, AAC, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia RAM/RM/RV/RA/RMVB, 3gp, VIVO, PVA, NUV, NSV, NSA, FLI, FLC, and DVR-MS (beta support)
Video codec:
MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak,
Audio codec:
MIDI, AIFF, WAV/WAVE, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey’s Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Speex, Vorbis and WMA.
Digital picture/image formats:
RAW image formats, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX and Targa/TGA
Well, I did not find MTS, M2TS or AVCHD from the supported list. I add my video folder with .m2ts files to XBMC, and the files are listed, but the video comes out without image. What to do if we want to use XBMC for the videos shot by AVCHD video camcorders like Panasonic HDC-SD100, Panasonic HDC-HS350, Sony HDR-SR5 HD Handycam? One of the solutions is to convert AVCHD video to MPEG-2 for XBMC, as we can see that XBMC supports MPEG with MPEG-2 video codec and MP2 audio codec. Here I use the Mac version of Aunsoft MTS/M2TS Converter as an example. If you want to use XBMC on Mac, you can use the M2TS converter in Windows version.
Step 1. Load MTS/M2TS videos to Aunsoft MTS/M2TS Converter.
After capturing videos from your camcorder/camera to hard drive, just run the M2TS converter and click Add button to load AVCHD videos that you want to share on XBMC.
Step 2. Choose MPEG-2 as output for XBMC.
XBMC actually supports many video and audio formats, and the M2TS converter offers different kinds of output formats like AVI, MP4, FLV, 3GP, WMV. However, I choose MPEG as an example.
Just click the HD Video > MPEG-2 HD Video (*.mpg) for the output.
Step 3. Convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS to MPEG-2 for Xbox.
Click the convert button on the bottom-right of the interface, and the conversion from AVCHD MTS/M2TS to MPEG-2 starts.
Wait for a while and the conversion will be finished. Run XBMC on Mac and add videos from hard drive to the library. You can also connect the Mac to TV with DVI and VGA adaptor to enjoy videos on big-screen TV and even HD TV.
Tips:
To install XBMC for Mac, just click here and different versions are available at http://xbmc.org/download/.
As a remote control is bundled with Mac, you can also configure apple remote and control XBMC.
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Aunsoft Blu-ray to iPhone 4 Converter-Convert BD/DVD to iPhone 4
With iPhone 4 on hand, do you want to make full use of your Blu-ray disc and DVD disc, and have them playing on your iPhone 4? Aunsoft Studio announced Blu-ray Ripper for Mac as the Mac Blu-ray to iPhone 4 converter for iPhone 4 users to enjoy HD 720p videos. The Mac Blu-ray to iPhone 4 converter has been updated with enhanced iPhone 4 profiles to make it easy operation on iMac/MacBook Pro.
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Convert BD/DVD to iPhone 4:
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