1. xport Transport Stream Demuxer, version 1.01 (2008-02-26):
http://www.w6rz.net/xport.zip

2. ldecod from jm15.0
current version is newer – 15.1 (2009-01-29):
http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/download/jm15.1.zip

3. transcode-1.0.7

4. SVN versions of ffmpeg or mplayer(mencoder):
ffmpeg-20081230.r16400
mplayer-20081230.r28215

And this is the script using ffmpeg and pipe. Commented commands are experiments, so you can try those, too. I hope the HTML will not break the script text, because there is no preview of the comment:

#!/bin/bash

for xsrc in “$@”; do

xdestavi=”${xsrc}.avi”
xdestmpg=”${xsrc}.mpg”

xac3=”${xsrc}.ac3″
xwav=”${xsrc}.wav”
xmp3=”${xsrc}.mp3″
xyuv=”${xsrc}.yuv”

uuidstring=`uuidgen`
xyuvfifo=”/tmp/${xsrc}.${uuidstring}.fifo.yuv”

xporthdmv -h “$xsrc” 1 1 1 || exit 1
mv bits0001.mpa $xac3

transcode -i “$xac3″ -y null,wav -o “$xwav”

# lame “$xwav” “$xmp3″

mkfifo “$xyuvfifo”

#ldecod -i bits0001.mpv -o $xyuv
ldecod -i bits0001.mpv -o “$xyuvfifo” &

# mencoder “$xyuv” \
# -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=1440:h=1080 -aspect 16:9 -ofps 29.97 \
# -audiofile “$xmp3″ -oac copy -ovc lavc \
# -o “$xdestavi”

# mencoder “$xyuv” \
# -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=1440:h=1080 -aspect 16/9 -ofps 29.97 \
# -audiofile “$xmp3″ -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:aspect
# -o “$xdestavi”

#SL: tozi e OK
# mencoder “$xyuv” \
# -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=1440:h=1080 -aspect 16/9 -ofps 25 \
# -audiofile “$xmp3″ -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:aspect
# -o “$xdestavi”

# ffmpeg -r 29.97 -s 1440×1080 -vcodec mpeg4 -sameq -i “$xyuv” \
# -acodec copy -i “$xmp3″ \
# -b 15000k “$xdestavi”

# ffmpeg -r 25 -s 1440×1080 -i “$xyuv” \
# -i “$xmp3″ -acodec copy -vcodec mpeg4 -b 6000k -aspect 16:9 \
# “$xdestavi”

#SL: tva za DVD e OK
#SL: 1. no fifo
# ffmpeg -r 25 -s 1440×1080 -i “$xyuv” \
# -i “$xwav” -target pal-dvd -b 6000k -aspect 16:9 \
# “$xdestmpg”

#SL: 2. fifo
ffmpeg -r 25 -s 1440×1080 -i “$xyuvfifo” \
-i “$xwav” -target pal-dvd -b 6000k -aspect 16:9 \
“$xdestmpg”

rm “$xyuvfifo”
done

### script end

p.s. There are two reasons not to use Sony’s original software for the purpose:
* it runs only in Windows
* the results were not goot if large area of water is in the movie, e.g. swimming pool – the source m2ts file is OK, but the converted one had many “still” frames

my work around is add “-demuxer lavf”

I am now using this command to convert m2ts file:
mencoder $i -o ${i}.avi -vc ffh264 -demuxer lavf -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=3000 -fps 50 -vf scale=640:360

here’s my current script
http://linux-tipps.blogspot.com/2008/08/comfortable-direct-hd-video-encoding.html

[h264 @ 0x11e64b0]Missing reference picture 0min 21mb A-V:-0.014 [2870:384]
[h264 @ 0x11e64b0]illegal short term buffer state detected
[h264 @ 0x11e64b0]Missing reference picture 0min 21mb A-V:-0.014 [2870:384]
[h264 @ 0x11e64b0]Missing reference picture

Any idea?