Converting MTS files

My wife's Panasonic camera is able to record videos in AVCHD format (file type being MTS). Avidemux seems to be in trouble with those videos: opening an MTS file makes it display a window larger than the desktop (!). And Handbrake crashes, depending on chosen output format. But for it, following profile works OK:

•  video:
• video codec: MPEG-4 (Ffmpeg)
• framerate: 25 (PAL film / video)
• constant quality - QP: 4
• audio:
• codec: MP3 (lame)
• bitrate: 48
• sample rate: 44.1

For some months now, I have had in mind, firstly, to seriously review my Chinese lessons and, secondly, to really start developing an application for Android.

I spent some time browsing the Android Market for an application that would have allowed me to review my lessons. Without success. So, I decided to take this opportunity to develop my first Android application. Three months later, here is some kind of a result, namely version 0.5 of Xue application.

This application allows you to define lessons. A lesson is a set of Chinese words, with associated pronunciation (pinyin), translation, and possibly a comment.

So, the application lets you create lessons. Then you populate them with the vocabulary you want to review. When you want to review a lesson, you choose whether you want to perform it from Chinese to English or from English to Chinese. The application displays words (either Chinese ones or English ones) in a random order. You can check whether you remember right pronunciation and translation.

Since I upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S to Android 2.3.3, it was no more possible to set a custom ringtone.

A rapid googling provided me with the solution:

• create three directories on the internal SD card, in the /audio directory:
  
• ringtones
• notifications
• alarms
• put the audio files into relevant directory