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Trying to find AVCHD files formatted drive

December 2nd, 2008, 20:55

Hi guys

I am trying to search for AVCHD ( *.mts) files from a formatted drive, i cant seems to find any software supported this extension.

I try winhex and customized the file header search but i am having trouble in determine the header in MTS file.

If someone could help much appreciated. thank you.

Re: Trying to find AVCHD files formatted drive

December 2nd, 2008, 22:23

Can you not create a new .mts file and then examine it?

Re: Trying to find AVCHD files formatted drive

December 3rd, 2008, 1:11

I am trying to determine the header but I dont know how to locate the mts file's header. Please see the attached JPGs.

I have 3 mts file but all beginning of the header files are different.
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Re: Trying to find AVCHD files formatted drive

December 3rd, 2008, 2:07

hex view would probably be more helpful to look at

Re: Trying to find AVCHD files formatted drive

December 3rd, 2008, 2:22

Here you go, thanks
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Re: Trying to find AVCHD files formatted drive

December 3rd, 2008, 3:07

so aside from the first four bytes the rest looks the same in all three

some googling turned up this "MTS has 192-byte-sized packets, of which the first four bytes are a big
endian counter (some kind of time stamp, like pcr)"

looks like first packet starts 47 40 and next packet starts with 47 41 etc

also it appears that the extension is usually .m2ts after the file has been transferred off of the camera

guy here thinks he has figured out the header http://www.highdefforum.com/high-defini ... o-one.html

Re: Trying to find AVCHD files formatted drive

December 3rd, 2008, 5:31

thank you drccsc i will check it out, will post results.

Re: Trying to find AVCHD files formatted drive

December 4th, 2008, 0:37

doesnt work on 0x13ff and 4740h , anyone have a clue? thanks
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