Canon HG10 - Can VLC Playback .MTS?

[yesurbius]

I am wondering if VLC can play back MTS files, or what the progress is like on development...

I purchased a Canon HG10 HD camcorder .. When I bring the video into iMovie, it is never the full size, and it looks horrible - I see interlaced lines all over the place, or poor image quality if I put it to 24p mode.

I downloaded Canon's HG10 sample video and it looks NOTHING like the output I am getting. So my guess is that iMovie 08 is doing a very bad job of importing these videos from the device.

I'm looking for another software package that I can use just to test whether it is iMovie or the camera. Playing the .MTS files raw in VLC is an option.

I tried playing one of the .MTS files .. I had to open the file as a pipe .. the video had a split second of motion, then went to a washed out screen - but the audio was there.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

give us the messages or a sample.

[Derek]

I have also gotten an HG10, and having a terrible time trying to get the clips into my computer. The software that came with it doesn't seem to do the trick. Any ideas?
Derek

[mturnbow]

j-b

The links below are for a .mts and .m2ts files created by a cannon hg10. The .m2ts was created by the provided software from cannon. The .mts is the original.

http://wikisend.com/download/216595/00004.MTS

http://wikisend.com/download/223552/20080221080532.M2TS

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

OK. Both of the provided Videos play fine in the development versions of VLC. Next release will have it.

[mturnbow]

Thanks. Is there a projection as to when the next release will be available?

[Arite]

You download nightly builds of 0.9.0 here:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/

As for the release date... as far as I know there isn't one yet. When it is ready .

Cheers, Arite.

[yesurbius]

There doesn't seem to be a Mac OS X intel nightly build currently.

[krypttic]

The latest nightlies (0.9) will begin to play the MTS files off of my Canon Vixia HF-10 Camcorder, but it starts to choke about 3 seconds in. The release version (0.8.6f)chokes about half a second in.

Are there any settings or tricks I can try to get the files to play back smoothly? I can't find any other options to play these files on the Mac side with the exception of Toast Video Player, which only plays them back at about 50% frame rate (very stuttery). Transcoding with iMovie defeats the purpose of a SDHC camera since the import is slower than real-time and the transcoding takes about 10X more space.

My hardware: Macbook Pro 2.6/4 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD.

Thanks!