Creating an AVCHD disc from Sony camera files (MP4)?

[Dshow]

I received a Sony DSC-W290 camera for Christmas. It creates video in 720P with the .mp4 extension. I have a Sony BDP-S350 Blue Ray player that is supposed to play AVCHD files. I would like to play the HD video captured on my camea on the blue ray player. From what I have gathered so far, I downloaded multiAVCHD and tried to compile an AVCHD disc, but I get errors and says it created 0 files.

Can anyone tell me what steps I am missing?

Thanks!

Here is the MediaInfo of the file the camera creates:
General
Complete name : C:\Documents and Settings\Dan\My Documents\My Pictures\2010-01-02-1048-30\M4H00103.MP4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Sony PSP
Codec ID : MSNV
File size : 47.5 MiB
Duration : 44s 544ms
Overall bit rate : 8 938 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-01-02 10:44:44
Tagged date : UTC 2010-01-02 10:45:28

Video
ID : 1
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Coding Efficiency@L4
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : 20
Duration : 44s 544ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 8 871 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 9 000 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 14.0 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.321
Stream size : 47.1 MiB (99%)
Encoded date : UTC 2010-01-02 10:44:44
Tagged date : UTC 2010-01-02 10:45:28

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : Yes
Format settings, PS : Yes
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 44s 544ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 64.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 348 KiB (1%)
Encoded date : UTC 2010-01-02 10:44:44
Tagged date : UTC 2010-01-02 10:45:28

[Baldrick]

Try tsmuxer.

[Dshow]

Thanks for the response. I downloaded and tried tsmuxer. When I tried to add the video file, I got the following error message:
Unsupported Format - Some tracks not recognized. This tracks was ignored. File Name: "C:\Documents and Settings\Dan\My Documents\My Pictures\2010-01-02-1048-30\M4H00103.MP4"

(You'd think since everything is Sony, they wouldn't make things so difficult.......)

Any other suggestions?

[amoersch]

The Problem is related directly with the fact that the w290 doesn't support avchd file creation. An mp4 video can be hd without having avchd programming. Your best bet is to convert the mp4 to say a high res AVI or MPEG2. This will undoubtedly increase your file size significantly but it should play on the s350. The bluray player you have unfortunately doesn't support mp4.

For a heads up the standard file format for items that are avchd is .mt2s.

hopefully this will help. sorry i didn't see the post for some months, as i was searching for something else i came across it.

After an mt2s file is converted to mp4 it is generally changed it to an avc/h.264

[Dshow]

Thanks for replying. I've learned to use Handbrake to convert the Sony mp4 to something to an mp4 that is recognizable by Nero, but this is a PITA. My next camera will not be a Sony.

[ranchhand]

Man, I feel your pain. I have a Canon camcorder that shoots AVCHD and I have been playing "ring around the rosie" with AVCHD for several months. I finally threw in the towel and used Handbrake to convert my AVCHD files to MPEG4 (it does a beautiful job). The quality is extremely close, and finally I can edit and author my movies. It is unfortunate, but IMHO it is just too new and complicated a compression scheme at this time. But, I will tell you, on my Canon21 with a hard drive, I can shoot unbelievable amounts of footage and never have to use memory chips. It really compresses, I must admit that. And it is amazing quality when I play it on the 1080p TV straight from my camera. So, I figure, when I get home, even if I must convert to MPEG4, it is extremely convenient to have all that on one disk.

[Dshow]

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