Continuous playback of multiple .mts or .m2ts files

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I have a Panasonic HDC-SD5 camcorder which records the files in a BlueRay-Like directory structure with .mts-files containing the actual videos. The camcorder creates a new file for each scene, so I end up with hundreds of video files.

VLC can play each of those files just fine, but if I want to watch more than one file, the video output window always closes and a new one is opened, causing some delay and the desktop flickering through. Is there a configuration option to not close the video window, or some other workaround?

I observe the same behavior on both linux and windows with VLC 1.0.0. The computer is fast enough to decode and show the videos. It's just the continuous playback that I am looking for.

Regards
Thomas

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Open the main AVCHD folder in VLC, but not the individual file

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Playing the avchd folder does not help. First, vlc tries to play some non-video files and then vlc plays the .mts files exactly the same way as if I give them on the command line. The flicker remains. This is how the directory structure looks like:

./avchd/avchdtn/thumb.tdt
./avchd/avchdtn/thumb.tid
./avchd/bdmv/clipinf/00000.cpi
./avchd/bdmv/clipinf/00001.cpi
...
./avchd/bdmv/clipinf/00021.cpi
./avchd/bdmv/clipinf/00022.cpi
./avchd/bdmv/index.bdm
./avchd/bdmv/movieobj.bdm
./avchd/bdmv/playlist/00000.mpl
./avchd/bdmv/playlist/00001.mpl
./avchd/bdmv/playlist/00002.mpl
./avchd/bdmv/stream/00000.mts
./avchd/bdmv/stream/00001.mts
...
./avchd/bdmv/stream/00021.mts
./avchd/bdmv/stream/00022.mts

Is it a problem with the structure? Case sensitivity? Anything else?

Thanks for your help,
Thomas

[tobox]

This is the output on the console on linux (using vlc 0.9.9) when playing two files - maybe the flickering is caused by the TS discontinuity errors?

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tobox@tbx-pc:~/movies/Cuba2/avchd/bdmv/stream$ vlc 00000.mts 00001.mts VLC media player 0.9.9a Grishenko [00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.9a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2009 the VideoLAN team [00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--disable-maintainer-mode' '--enable-release' '--prefix=/usr' '--config-cache' '--enable-fast-install' '--with-binary-version=3' '--disable-update-check' '--disable-fb' '--enable-ggi' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-esd' '--enable-mad' '--enable-arts' '--enable-jack' '--enable-pulse' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-a52' '--enable-aa' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-mozilla' '--with-mozilla-pkg=iceape-plugin' '--enable-dvb' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-shout' '--enable-qt4' '--enable-flac' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-speex' '--enable-caca' '--enable-live555' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-fribidi' '--enable-mod' '--enable-theora' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-gnutls' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-smb' '--disable-gnomevfs' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-vcd' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-notify' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-faad' '--disable-zvbi' '--enable-telx' '--disable-x264' '--disable-atmo' '--enable-taglib' '--enable-libass' '--enable-dca' '--enable-realrtsp' '--disable-dv' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-v4l2' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-svgalib' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2' [00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C" [00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 1, expected 0) for PID 0 libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 1, expected 0) for PID 256 [00000494] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:2 samplerate:48000 bitrate:256000 No accelerated IMDCT transform found libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 3, expected 11) for PID 0 libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 3, expected 11) for PID 256 libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 1, expected 0) for PID 0 libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 1, expected 0) for PID 256 [00000530] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:2 samplerate:48000 bitrate:256000 No accelerated IMDCT transform found