how to reconstruct a BDMV / AVCHD structure?

[core_man_2000]

I own a Canon HF-100. I recorded a movie with 280 scenes. There seems to be a bug in the HF-100 firmware, because the 00000.mpl file got corrupted: it contains only the last 60 scenes, while in the STREAM and CLIPINF dirs 280 files are present. The stream files are fine, I can playback them.
BUT: I need to import the whole "film" == all scenes to iMovie. But that stupid program only can import BDMV structures, and not simply .MTS files....

So does anyone know how to reconstruct the BDMV structure, while keeping the 280 scenes? I tried tsmuxer, but this will create a playlist for each and every .mts. I need one playlist 00000.mpl.

Thanks
Joey

[minidv2dvd]

maybe use tsmuxer to join them all into one file. then import it into imovie.

[core_man_2000]

...and this way I will loose all the information about the scenes.
Anyone a better idea?

does anyone know how the structure of the 00000.mpl shall look like? maybe I can create a prog to make me a new one...

Thaks
Joey

[wulf109]

TSmuxer,add the additional files with the append button,then click the Blue Ray tab and select custom chapter list.

[core_man_2000]

maybe I am getting it wrong: I add a bunch of .mts files, go to blu ray tab, choose custom chapter list.
what time points shall I enter? I don't know them.
If I remove all except 00:00:00, the result is ONE .mts file, which is not desired.

Thanks
Joey

[uncledan]

coreman,

I'm having a very similar problem. I backed up all of my .MTS files to a hard drive assuming I would be able to copy them back to my Canon Vixia camcorder for playback. The camera's hard drive shows the data stream files, but unfortunately, the 00000.MPL file doesn't include the copied files. I'm trying to manually alter the text file, but there appear to be hexadecimal markers (or something) after the filename itself and I have no idea how to get the camera to point to the file on its own drive.

Frustrating AND annoying- let me know if you have any luck...

-Dan

[core_man_2000]

Hi

yeah, this is indeed very similar. Canon support says they cannot reconstruct the mpl file.
So i think there is no way to copy back to the camera or to merge some complete backups onto one SD card.

I managed at least to import them all to imovie, but cumbersome: taking an existing mpl file and replacing the file names with a hex editor. important here is that the length of the scene in the mpl file is bigger than the real scene, or else imovie will import only part of the scene.

sorry to not being able to help

Joey.