M2t footage suddenly deemed 'damaged or unsupported'

I've been working on this project for a while now, using HDV footage captured as m2t.
I've just resumed after a two-week holiday, only to find that my aep is no longer working. When I open the project I get the following error message:
After Effects error: file 'footage.m2t' cannot be imported - this '.m2t' file is damaged or unsupported.
When I last left it, everything was working perfectly, and no file locations have changed. Running the source footage in other programs such as VLC or MPC etc poses no problem, it is only AE that suddenly won't accept it.
Anybody know what's going on? I'm running Win 7 x64.
Cheers

If you are NOT using AE 10 or 10.5 but an earlier version, you should know that m2t files will give your AE version fits.  That would be AE CS4 or earlier.
Many people running those versions report the same thing: it was working before, but it doesn't now.
Their luck ran out, and depending on your AE version, your may have, too.  The fix is to convert the footage to a lossless codec, and don't try using AE to do it: use a different application.  I'm primarily a Mac guy, so I would make quicktime movies in the PNG codec.  If I had Final Cut Pro installed on my AE machine, I'd make ProRes 422 files.
How 'bout Windows?  Ask somebody else.

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