I have a ATI HDTV Wonder card and it can pick up and record OTA HD channels. I recorded a football game the other day, and I want to back it up as a AVCHD on a regular DVD so it can be played back on the PS3 later.

It saved the files initially as .ts, but I exported only the stream I wanted.

So I have an mpg file now thats close to 11 gigs that I want to back as AVCHD on a DVD (4.7gb). What's the easiest way to go about this? Thanks

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I'm not sure what the best method is, but the one I'd use, given what I know about the tools that are out there, would be to encode the video stream with x264 (i use meGUI as a front end for it), and copy the audio stream directly if it's not too big. Using TsMuxer, you can import the streams, change the AVC level to 4.1 (i think, maybe 5.1), and it can put out a blu-ray file structure. The M2TS container seems to have a big overhead though, so I don't think the MeGUI bitrate calculator would work for fitting the video on the disc.

If you don't need it for long term storage, you can simply remux it into an m2ts container with TsMuxer and copy it to the PS3 hard drive with a media server like TVersity.

I tried nero vision 5 and tried to put each half on a AVCHD dvd, but the encoding was going to take ~100 hours for each half!

Would the above method be less time consuming?


(I have a 3800+ single core processor)

If you want to go to avchd on dvd then it will need transcoding. Probably the easiest way is Ulead DVD Movie factory (about $80)... but it will take time.

The other thing you can consider is a M2T file. M2T is an mpeg transport stream and the PS3 will play that directly. Just copy the M2t to the disk and pop it in the PS3. A double layer dvd will hold about 40 minutes.

I tried nero vision 5 and tried to put each half on a AVCHD dvd, but the encoding was going to take ~100 hours for each half!

Would the above method be less time consuming?


(I have a 3800+ single core processor)
If you're not against multiple discs, you could open the big TS in tsmuxer, and set it to split an M2TS output into DVD-sized chunks. It'll take no time and if you burn that on DVDs, I think the PS3 should be able to play it.

Any method that involves transcoding the video will be very time consuming.

I use free tools :) to convert from HD .ts files to a DVD:

HDTVtoMPEG2 for editing out commercials.

then HDTV2DVD to convert to DVD playable format.

use google to search for them.....