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Play back video AVCHD

AVCHD captured video can be played back in a range of ways: 

Direct playback — Video can be played via HDMI or component-video cable on a TV set from a camcorder. 

AVCHD disk — AVCHD video captured on DVD can be played on most Blu-ray Disc players or on a gaming console of PlayStation 3. 

Blu-ray — AVCHD video can be played on most Blu-ray Disk players, captured on Blu-ray. 

AVCHD memory card — AVCHD video stored on an SDHC or Memory Stick card can be played on select Blu-ray disc players, HDTV sets, a PlayStation 3 gaming console and on certain other media devices on the set-top.

USB playback — Video files that are stored on an external storage device such as a hard disk drive or a USB "ring" can be played on select Blu-ray Disc players, HDTV sets, PlayStation 3 gaming console, set-top video players and computer devices. 

Video playback — any device and target format that a particular computer hardware and software supports can be viewed on a computer monitor or TV set.

The open-source VLC media player currently plays AVCHD video files and a wide variety of additional formats, and is available freely for most modern operating systems (including Linux , macOS, MS Windows) and some mobile platforms. MacOS supports native AVCHD playback through the default media player, QuickTime, since Mountain Lion. Any Windows 7 versions will natively import and play AVCHD video, with pre-registered M2TS, MTS, and M2 T extension files in the framework. (Windows 7 Starter Edition does not support AVCHD files from the box, so a third party player is required.)

Windows Media Player can index content in those files in Windows 7 editions that support AVCHD files, and Windows Explorer can create thumbnails for each clip. Windows 7 does not allow the import of AVCHD video metadata including thumbnail images, playlists, and index files for films. Neither is it supported to join AVCHD video files during import. 

AVCHD as file format 

A DVD disk stored on it with AVCHD high definition video is often called an AVCHD disk. AVCHD disks can't be played on a standard DVD player, but can be played on many Blu-ray Disc players. Smooth playback is not guaranteed when the maximum data rate is greater than 18 Mbit/s.

Simple menus similar to menus used for DVD-video disks can be developed. 

In addition, AVCHD content can be stored on SDHC cards and played by several TV sets, Blu-ray Disc players and gaming consoles. 

The AVCHD specification does not officially support Blu-ray Disc media, although some software packages allow Blu-ray Disks to author AVCHD content. AVCHD video can be written on Blu-ray Disk media as Blu-ray Disc video for greater compatibility with Blu-ray disk players. No re-encoding of AVCHD audio and video streams is needed when authoring a Blu-ray Disc video title. The resulting disc works in every Blu-ray Disc set, even some that don't support AVCHD directly.

Many vendors of software support Mastering AVCHD. Specifically: 

Cyberlink PowerDirector and PowerProducer will use DVD media to build a compatible AVCHD disk, or BDMV. 

Corel (formerly Ulead) DVD MovieFactory 7 can use menus to master AVCHD dvds. 

Various Sonic products may use HD / BD Plug-in to author AVCHD disks. 

Compressor 3.5 is capable of authoring AVCHD discs; it does not support the subtitles. 

Nero Vision 9 can create an AVCHD disk with a data rate of up to 18 Mbit / s or an AVCHD folder for distribution on an HDD or a data rate memory card up to 24 Mbit / s.

Sony DVD Architect 5 will use MPEG-2 encoding to build AVCHD-compliant disks with menus using AVC encoding, and non-standard disks. Data levels in both cases are limited to 18 Mbit / s. 

Panasonic HD Writer AE is capable of authoring AVCHD content on DVD, BD, and SD cards. 

MultiAVCHD can create AVCHD disks as well as AVCHD memory cards which comply with Panasonics. 

Magix Video Edit Pro 15 Plus will write AVCHD content on DVDs, BD discs with updates. 

AVCHD disk output is offered by Pinnacle Studio 11.1.2 and higher. 

While AVCHD shares several format similarities with Blu-ray Disc, this is not part of the specification for Blu-ray Disk.

Consequently, AVCHD-playback is not supported universally across Blu-ray Disk players. Blu-ray disk players with a "AVCHD" label play AVCHD discs recorded on DVDs of either 8 cm or 12 cm. Teams without such a badge are not assured of playing AVCHD cds. 

The 1080-line 50p/60p AVCHD Progressive recording mode used in some camcorders does not comply with the latest Blu-ray Disc standard, but it is not officially supported by many other player models because they support AVCHD format.

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