Hello all.
Cross posting is probably naughty, but I thought I might try and catch some folks who don't normally swing by the small Canon camera forum.

Has anyone ever encountered the problems I detail in this thread?
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=112275
The repeating frames problem is the most perplexing.
I think I'm just going to move straight over to an intermediate using this method;
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic303573.html
and the Largarith codec seems pretty good after a cursory bit of testing. But the original problem with AE and m2ts still has me curious.