Possibly Corrupt MTS Filt

[sherman39]

I have a few AVCHD recordings made using a Panasonic GH2 onto a SD card. I use Corel Video studio X5 as an editor. Whilst I normally have no issues importing/transferring the MTS/M2Ts files into the editor, one file in particular, which happens top be the largest but not excessively so, causes VS X5 to crash and produce a .dmp file.

The same file plays quite happily in Splash Lite but crashes windows media player.

I'd appreciate any input as to what may be wrong with the offending file and what, if anything, I can do about it.

Regards

Paul

[Baldrick]

Try "remux" the mts with tsmuxer, open with the mts and make a new mts or ts or m2ts file.

[sherman39]

Dear Baldrick
Thank you for replying so quickly. I did as you suggested and remuxed to TS and m2ts. Both of these now play in windows media player but sadly still cause Corel VS X2 and X5 to crash when I try to import them.
Thanks again for your help.
Regards
Paul

[Baldrick]

Post the details from the mts. Use Mediainfo, open video, view->text and copy and paste all the info.

[sherman39]

Dear Baldrick
Please see below
General
ID : 0 (0x0)
Complete name : D:\Drive (D)\FZ150Trial Video\00016 - Copy.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 320 MiB
Duration : 2mn 41s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 16.6 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 18.0 Mbps

Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 2mn 41s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 15.7 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 16.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.304
Stream size : 303 MiB (95%)

Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 2mn 41s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 3.69 MiB (1%)

Text
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Duration : 2mn 40s

Regards
Paul

[poisondeathray]

Maybe it's an issue with Corel VS since WMP is ok with it ?

You can try downloading a trial version of Sony Vegas or some other editing software - if it doesn't crash in there it's more likely an issue isolated with Corel VS - check their forums for problems and updates

You can try a workaround by re-encoding it to a different format format for import

[sherman39]

Thank you for your suggestions. Converting to a lesser format did allow me to import into VS X5. I also removed the audio from the offending file and for some reason beyond my comprehension the remaining video did import into VS X5 without issue. Perhaps the audio had somehow corrupted or was too long (only 2+ minutes).

Thanks again for your suggestions.

Regards

Paul

[mike20021969]

This may or may not help, but install Video Studio Pro X5 Service Pack 1 update (released 4th June).
One of the fixes is regarding file formats.

http://www.corel.com/corel/pages/index.jsp?pgid=800161&ppid=4700015