need to convert mpg to avchd

[mrgreaper]

ok heres it in a nut shell, i converted a mkv file to mpg so that i could play it on my ps3, its just slightly bigger then a dvdr and i want to turn it into a avchd (that will fit a dvd-r)
now if i google mpg to avchd all i find is avchd to mpg lol so any help is apreciated, i have ubuntu and windows 7 not sure if that helps

[minidv2dvd]

hi and welcome to the forum.

the best way would be to use the original mkv, using the already re-encoded mpg is going to make a poorer looking mp4. too many re-encodes.

try handbrake and encode to h264 which is avchd.

[mrgreaper]

i set the video codec to h.264 but output formats can only be (mkv file, mp4 file,m4v file,avi file or ogm file) no mention of avchd, am i missing something?

[poisondeathray]

you need to author it, eg. multiavchd or tsmuxer

they will re-wrap it into the transport stream .m2ts , and create the necessary support files & folders for the avchd structure

if your mkv was within spec, you could just use multiavchd on that, and save hours, and lose no quality

overhead for transport stream is ~5-7% larger than mkv container. So if your mkv is bordering on the dvd5 limit, you will have to re-encode or cut sections out

[jman98]

i set the video codec to h.264 but output formats can only be (mkv file, mp4 file,m4v file,avi file or ogm file) no mention of avchd, am i missing something?

Pick MKV. You can feed the output to tsmuxer or MultiAVCHD.

[minidv2dvd]

avchd is h264. same thing different name.

AVCHD is a format for recording and playback of high definition video. Video is compressed in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format, and audio is recorded in Dolby Digital.