I haven't test these. They are collected for reference only. With mencoder, from HOWTO: Convert and write AVCHD (.mts) to DVD with Linux mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts fo... With HandBrake (GUI): Transcoding AVHD (Cannon HF100 .mts) into a usable open format (MKV w/ FFMPEG) With ffmpeg & WinFF (GUI and command line): How to convert Canon .mts video files to other formats in Ubuntu With mencoder, from Transcoding AVCHD (.mts or .m2ts) files using mencoder on Linux (no deinterlacing): # 1 pass mencoder $file -o ./$file.avi -oac cop... With ffmpeg, from Stuttering playback of canon MTS files #!/bin/bash for i in "$i"*.MTS; do name="${i%.*... #!/bin/bash for i in "$i"*.MTS; do name="${i%.*... With mencoder, from [MEncoder-users] problems with AVCHD (.mts) + Deinterlace...

From http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/17/0247246/HDCP-Master-Key-Is-Legitimate-Blu-ray-Is-Cracked : MakeMKV rips most Blu-Rays very easily. If you want to re-encode with compression like x264, Handbrake will do it easily (though it takes about 6 hours at "20" quality on my i7 HTPC). The audio is a little tricky, but with MKVmerge you can just take the stream that MakeMKV gave you and mux it into the video stream Handbrake spat out. Subtitles are tougher because of the way they're done on Blu-Ray, but I find that opensubtitles.org usually has a perfectly-timed SRT file for my rips, most often from a guy called Shoocat. With newer codecs, the text is super-smooth and often looks better than the subtitles on the blu-ray. The only really hellacious problem I've had with moving my Blu-Ray...

From http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MJPEG_Tools : A sample command line to deinterlace dv footage, give a slight film look, pass it through a Spatial-Pre-Filter, Temporal-Noise-Filter, and a Spatial-Post-Filter, then encode to DVD complient mpeg2 video looks like this - lav2yuv capture.dv | yuvdeinterlace -f | yuvdenois... From http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/40069 , the actual video file can be used in place of edit list (eli) file: # de-noice the video and scale for DVD output l...

Mplex is a general-purpose audio/video multiplexer for MPEG-1/MPEG-2 (part of mjpeg tools ). # -f 9 is DVD mplex -V -f 9 -M -S 5000 -o out.m... However, you must use " -f 8 " if you want to use dvdauthor to create an actual DVD with the resulting mpg file: # -f 8 is DVD with appropriate headers for authori... I got the following error when I used " -f 9 ": WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU... ... Mplex works with raw video and audio streams. To get a raw video stream out of a media file, use mencoder: mencoder PandaKing.mpg -o PandaKing-nosound.mpv -o...

Some tools to burn video files to DVD: DVD Flick: http://www.dvdflick.net/ Works on Windows 2000 Professional, all versions of Windows XP or all versions of Windows Vista. Uses ffmpeg . MEncoder + vcdimager or dvdauthor Works on Windows and Linux. Less user friendly than DVDFlick but more flexible. The following seemed helpful: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html