File2Mobile - MTS to MP4

[billbell52]

I gave my daughter an HD camcorder for XMAS. It produces MTS files. There is an option to convert them to mpg format. I would like to see about going directly from MTS to MP4. File2Mobile supports M2TS but not MTS. It errored out when I tried the format.

There are other tools that claim to support this. I would like to stick with DVDFab. Anyone know the difference between MTS and M2TS?

Anyone else with this problem?

[W&B]

Sorry I don't know the diff between the 2 but did you try renaming the file extension from MTS to M2TS?

[maineman]

Sorry I don't know the diff between the 2 but did you try renaming the file extension from MTS to M2TS?

I dunno the difference either, but it appears your advice is right on.

I spotted this on avsforum:

'Originally m2ts stood for "mpeg-2 transport stream" which supports mpeg-4 (AVC) streams. But those m2ts mpeg-2 transport streams are different from the mts/m2ts AVCHD container. When you are talking about AVCHD, there is no difference between the mts and m2ts files except other than the filename.'

[billbell52]

It is part of a AVCHD container.

I found a free program that seems to work ok. If I end up doing a lot of these I'll try file2mobile. My trial license expired so no way to test it.