Download VLC Player,it's free.

The PlayStation 3 supports AVCHD.

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Get Movist instead. So much more stable. I never looked back after discovering that little player

Movist
 

One more voice here for Movist. If you are using a Mac, Movist is the smoothest, fasters player out there. On my 4-year old MacBook Pro, everything else struggles with the compression, with jerky playback. Movist sails smoothly through any AVCHD file I throw at it. Not to mention, it automatically plays back all files in the same directory. I just double-click on any of the files in the folder, Movist opens and plays all subsequent clips one after the other.

I don't know what works best in Windows.

Re: Is there an app to play raw avchd consecutively?
 

Interesting thread. Thanks Bob for pointing me to "SPLASH". I have been trying for ages to get a program to play AVCHD files consecutively on my PC. So I downloaded "Splash".

Previously, the best I could do was within windows explorer to select these files (highlight), & then press "enter". This works, - (sort of), but there is an annoying gap between each clip. However, I downloaded "Slpash Pro" (Mirillis). and although it is a bit awkward in the way it opens it does play the VIDEO smoothly & continuously, BUT, no sound !

I went into the settings for audio & it is set for "stereo" - correct, (output mode), & audio shows " audio 01 " Video also shows " video 01 " but I cannot get sound.

If I open with VLC it plays fine, - video & audio, but with this one I cannot get the files to play continuously. - Any suggestions for either or both programs ?

RonC.

Re: Is there an app to play raw avchd consecutively?
 

Just adding to my previous reply, I am using windows 7, 64 bit with an Intel i7 CPU.

RonC.

Re: Is there an app to play raw avchd consecutively?
 

I'll add one too...

Cyberlinks PowerDVD 10
Which Plays both my Blu-Ray (Discs + Raw M2TS & ISO Files) and my Panasonic HDC-TM700 MTS files.

The best 3D video, Blu-ray player & DVD player software ? PowerDVD 10

Good Luck,
Bud