
PowerDVD does the job good since it supports the H.264 video card but any software works good with an Intel Core 2 Duo or better since they are fast enough. Radeon HD4850/4870 are exellent if you need it for games too and it's pretty much the best you can get today and they're not too expensive. You can find very cheap ones for about $100. You don't need a powerful computer at all to play AVCHD if you have a video card that supports H.264 (Full)Īlmost all new video cards have it but you better check it before buying since some of them only supports H.264 (Half). mts files by right-clicking the file and doing an "Open With." PowerDVD in my version does not explictly have an "Open File" dialog. Instead it is designated as "PowerDVD DX" and quite possibly has fewer features than the full retail BD version. I should mention that my version of PowerDVD is supplied by Dell with their BluRay burner-equipped XPS Extreme systems and is NOT the standard flavor software. It will not play Nero Vision AVCHD disks, Sony Vegas disks (even though they lack menus) and will sometimes not play Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 disks. I have purchased and used most of the current PC programs which can author AVCHD disks, and my experience has been that Nero Show Time will open and play all of them, whereas PowerDVD will only open and play those made with Pinnacle 12 Ultimate, Cyberlink PowerDirector 7 Plus, and Ulead Movie Factory 6 Plus. It'll play disks that my Samsung 1400 and friend's PS3 wont. I'm able to get PowerDVD to play all the AVCHD disks I've created with Pinnacle Studio 12.
