You might also try VideoLAN. It's free and open source, and plays a ton of different file types. The latest version plays mts/m2ts files out of my AVCHD Canon HF10 camcorder just fine.

Grab Haali Media Spliter.... it will allow you to open m2t, m2ts, mp4 etc with Windows Media player. You will need however a Directshow filter to play the video inside that container.... for that grab FFDshow Tryouts - this can playback avchd and mpag2 streams.

Chris

Yeah... and jump this hoop... that hoop....

(IMO) Forget all these freebie players. You end up having about 5 or 6 of them on your machine because they won't play it all.

Power DVD Ultra. About $100 and it plays EVERYTHING. AC3, m2t, m2ts,ts Blu Ray, Dolby true HD, DTS, DD, Cineform avi (with cineform codec installed).... the list is endless.

One player fits all.

VLC.

Or,

Not a "player", but Windows 7 plays my m2t AVCHD files natively with Window Media Player, and not free either, but thought I'd mention it.

Thanks for all the help. I may end up just getting Nero. I have 7 but it does not work on Vista 64-bit. The new one does.

I'm using Nero 7.5 with Vista 64 and it works perfectly. I've tried Nero 8 and 9 and was very disappointed in both packages and I've been a Nero fan since way back. Nero Showtime used to be a nice addition, since it played so many formats, but now there are so many free players out there, like VLC and Media Player Classic that Showtime is beyond useless.

" Grab Haali Media Spliter "

That program installed something on my box that I cannot remove -

Not that it is doing any harm that I am aware of - just don't like the fact that I can't get rid of it...

I also vote for KM Player. I've used it for 6 months or so and I believe I haven't found anything it can't handle . . .

For previewing HDV to customers I currently use GOM Media Player full screen at full res and I think the footage looks slightly better than the alternatives. A bit more contrast. VLC is OK though.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema, latest versions from [url=http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/category/1/1/2/] , main page [url=http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/]

Are you playing MPEG-2 (HDV) or h.264 (AVCHD, MP4 etc) ?

And I'd agree with the others - Nero Showtime is outdated and expensive - the free alternatives are better so don't waste your money.

Tony

Nero 8 works well on Vista 64 if you custom load only the things you need and not the two huge GUI's, at least that's what I had to do.
JJK

MPEG-2 (HDV) is what I am playing

@PaulJG
MPEG-2 (HDV) is what I am playing

All you need is Media Player Classic. FREE. Doesn't need to be installed, just run .exe. Has built-in MPEG-2 decoder. If you also install FFdshow, you will play any video.

Don't waste your money on Nero.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema is Media Player Classic brought up-to-date, with support for hardware accelerated h.264 decoding and the EVR renderer (used in Vista).

Tony