GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 585077
Missing support for AVCHD (MTS/M2TS)
Last modified: 2010-12-08 08:36:16 UTC
In order for AVCHD (MTS/M2TS) files to work, support is required of: - MTS/M2TS container format - H.264 CODEC (including PAFF interlacing, current FFMPEG in Ubuntu gives this error when tying to do the above without downloading the current FFMPEG: "[h264 @ 0xb7e8fa68]PAFF interlacing is not implemented" ) - Dolby Digital, AC-3 - 1920 X 1080 resolution
Copied from https://bugs.launchpad.net/gstreamer/+bug/327872
I think this is all supposed to work. Perhaps you should try the gstreamer PPA packages instead of the default ones.
Yes, i am using the gstreamer ppa. When trying to play an MTS file in totem, the first frame comes up, but the video doesn't play.
Apparently the problem is with the MPEG-TS demuxer [mpegtsdemux] which was never designed for random access so it needs to be fixed or rewritten. I think bug Bug 550634 covers that
random access vs. streaming shouldn't really have any affect on the formats supported or not, it should only have affect seeking and duration/position queries and the like.
AFAIK, MPEG-2 TS has nothing to do with AVCHD (which is MPEG-4 AVC), shouldn't this bug be retitled?
AVCHD is AVC in MPEG-TS, so no.
AVCHD 1080i (1440x1080 interlaced 59.94 H.264 + AC-3 in MPEG-TS) plays fine in Totem here. Perhaps the reporter just doesn't have enough CPU power to decode in realtime. Anyway, WORKSFORME. The only bugs I see are more like Bug 550634.
This sounds like Bug 623663 (which has now been fixed).
See comment 4. It seems that bug 623663 is only about incorrectly detected content type which is not the same as gstreamer not being able to *correctly decode* the MPEG-TS stream. Note that gstreamer is unable to display some 1080p AVCHD (MPEG-TS with H.264 video) even without seeking so I'd guess that the real issue is bug 550634 or perhaps even something more widespread in mpegtsdemux.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 550634 ***