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gstreamer0.10 package

  1. Bug #327872
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 327872

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Mikko Rantalainen (mira) wrote : Re: Broken support for AVCHD (MTS/M2TS)

Jean-François Fortin Tam: AVCHD is about H.264 codec but the codec output is stored inside "an MPEG transport stream and stored on media as binary files" (as explained on the wikipedia page you linked to). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD#Specifications for details, notice especially the part "Stream type: MPEG transport stream".

A camcorder that stores the H.264 codec output in a .mov container is not AVCHD conforming, if I've understood correctly.

H.264 codec works already fine with gstreamer, the problem is M2TS (or .MTS in 8.3 file system) container format used to store the H.264 codec output. VLC is already able to play H.264 stored inside M2TS container modulo some bugs (such as not being able to correctly skip in the middle of the file).