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I have read that XBMC supports MPEG-4 AVC (H.264, including Nero Digital) but what is the file extension? I am thinking about getting a new HD Sony AVCHD Camcorder which writes .m2ts files that falls under the Blu-Ray standard.
Will the XBMC support this? I understand that their needs to be some major horsepower to play these but wanted to start a discussion on what other HD users are migrating to. Does anyone know of a device that can play these like the XBMC?
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So does the Linux port support AVCHD files yet? This is the BD format, produced by Sony (and other) HD home video cameras.
I poked around and couldn't find anything.
I know this is still in development, I was just curious.
Thanks!
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elupus
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potentially, thou not tested. libavcodec has some prelim support for it so some samples "might" work.
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So assuming I have a BluRay or HD-DVD that doesn't have copy protection, what's the best way to get something that XBMC-Linux can play?
1) Should I just rip the whole thing to an ISO? Does XBMC-Linux currently support HD-DVD or BluRay ISO's with menus and everything?
2) Just rip the movie part? Can I just rip it natively, or do I need to convert/transcode it to some other format? If the former, do tools like AnyDVD support ripping the movie part out? If the latter, what format (and any tool recommendations for conversion)?
If there are links to help me out, just point me in the general direction.
Thanks!
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It looks like there are currently more tools to do HD-DVD to something like Xvid than BluRay. I would also hazard a guess that currently neither of those formats are natively supported.
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I just tried a .m2ts / AVCHD file to XBMC and it wouldn't recognize it. Has anyone had any luck with this?
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as gamester17 said, try it with mplayer as it uses ffmpeg also.
xbmc wont support it until ffmpeg does cos thats what it uses.
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I have started changing over to MT2S files for my HI def storage, x264/AC3 as the streams. I can play them back fine on my PS3, however they don't show as a file format that XBMC can access.
Is there any plans for support of this container format, since it is the format that Blu-Ray uses I would love to go with something I can use in the future without having to remux over again.
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try adding it to the video file types from advancedsettings.xml look it up on the wiki but it really depends on what it needs to open the container
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m2ts is just another stupid naming convention (just like the asf vs wma vs wmv shenanigans). it is a normal mpeg transport streams (.ts) and are supported afaik