Copy the .MTS files over to your hard drive using HD Writer. Then, you can open them in Nero Showtime. You'll have to use ALL FILES to open them as Nero still doesn't recognize the .MTS extension.

While I can use Nero Vision to convert the files to MPEG-2, is there some trick to getting Nero Showtime to play the files with proper A/V sync? I've got a pretty fast system, AMD Athlon64 4600X2 with 2GB RAM, ATI X800 graphics card (no h.264 acceleration). PowerDVD seems to have no problem playing the files.

I haven't had that problem with Nero Showtime, Windows Media Player or PowerDVD7. I am running an Intel E6300, 2GB RAM, and an ATI X1600-based, hardware accelerated video card.

I have problems with AVCHD audio not quite in sync, and some skips.

I have an Intel E6600 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, Nvidia 8800GTS, 2GB 667Mhz DDRII RAM, playing from a 7200RPM SATA drive fully defragged, with nothing running in the background. Clean install of Vista, and clean install of Nero upgraded to the latest version.

Nero claims to be Vista compatible. Not sure what the problem is. I have a tech support request in to them.

Windows Media player plays it much better-though a couple of glitches sometimes.

I can covert the file to HD2, Mpeg2 and it plays fine then.

Erik

Ah. Vista. There are lots of problems with that OS.

Agreed, I'm sure they'll work out the bugs down the road--but Nero shouldn't be claiming Vista compatibility too soon if they need to get the major bugs out yet.

However, Michael is having similar problems as me--Michael, do you have Vista or XP?

Erik

XP... PowerDVD plays them just fine, its only Nero ShowTime that has A/V sync issues. I've got an ATI X1950 graphics card on its way, will be interesting to see if it makes a difference having the hardware h.264 acceleration.

I'm running Nero 7 on both my core duo laptop (X1600 video) and core 2 duo desktop (X1600 video). No stutters or sync issues since Nero updated to Ultra Enhanced. It did stutter on my laptop at CES until I got the new software. BTW, I'm running XP on both well into the future.