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AVCHD Video Card

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I own a Sony HDR-SR7 and have been using it for about 6 months.

Well the hard drive is getting full.

What I would like to do is transfer the AVCHD files (.mt2 extentsion) to a computer near my HD TV and play them back.

The only problem is even with a super fast computer and a super fast video card, playing back AVCHD does not work well.

Why can’t Sony or a video card manufacturer place the small AVCHD playback chip that is in my Sony HD camcorder on a video card?

Or why doesn’t Sony make a hard drive AVCHD playback device (similar to a TIVO).

Update: Looks like they do build a card for this now, see comment below!

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Malcy said in April 12th, 2008 at 4:44 am

The new range of ATI HD graphics cards like the HD3850 or HD3650 have built in HD decoding including H264/ AVC. They take over decoding from the processor and will play m2ts files with very little cpu utilisation.

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Dave Dugdale said in April 12th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

Malcy,

Wow, thanks for letting me know that!

I was wondering when try would build something like this for us AVCHD file users.

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Anders said in July 13th, 2008 at 1:15 am

The media player Popcorn Hour can handle .mt2 files and a LOT of more extensions on your TV. I use it to watch my video clips in 1080P. http://www.popcornhour.com

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Dave Dugdale said in July 13th, 2008 at 8:03 am

Anders,

Thanks for the info. Will Popcorn hour play AVCHD files from my Sony camera?

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Kevin L said in June 17th, 2009 at 9:38 pm

You should invest in the Western Digital media player. I have it and can handle mt2 files wihout any problem.

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Dave Dugdale said in June 17th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

Kevin,

I thought I heard that the WD media player could not play AVCHD files back to back without a gap (not seamless) is that true?

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Kevin L said in June 18th, 2009 at 10:58 am

Dave, it plays AVCHD fine with upgrade 1.02.07. Not sure what you mean by back to back with gap?

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Dave Dugdale said in June 18th, 2009 at 11:13 am

If you read this post I did on the Popcorn Hour you see what I am referring to.

See at the very bottom of the post where someone said that it will not playback files seamlessly from a directory.

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Kevin L said in June 18th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

For popcorn hour, change the setting on your software to produce one big file instead of splitting. The bad about this unit is that chapter search doesn’t work, but who really skips around during a popcorn hour. You can stop and pick up where you left off if you have the turn the unit off. Camcorder AVCHD is great.