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Stream/play AVCHD M2TS on WD TV live

WD TV Live is an important media player for home TV entertainment, we can see briefly in its supported formats AVCHD M2TS are among the list.But many friends meet the problem that they can't play camcorder AVCHD M2TS on it successfully. Following is one of the example:

"I've had a WD TV Live for a while and thought it was great. However I recently bought a Sony Cybershot DSC HX5V camera and discovered serious problems. 1. The WD TV Live won't display JPG photos from the Cybershot at proper resolution. No matter what I try, they always look very pixelated or grainy.

2. When I try to play AVCHD videos from the camera on the WD TV Live, it sort of plays them, but it stutters, and it also displays a black bar on screen with the video recording date time. " -------------From WD TV forum

Though Western Digital claims to support M2TS format, so far the Blu-ray M2TS is supported completely, but M2TS from different camcorder producers of Panasonic, Sony, Canon, JVC don't have the same M2TS video and audio codec criterion, just like Apple iMovie'11 claims to support AVCHD, but may camera models are not, like Panasonic, Canon, Sony 1080 60p/50p AVCHD models.

We won't lost too many brain cells for the WD TV live stupid compatibility problem, so just convert AVCHD directly to WD TV native supported Mp4, AVI format by the professional AVCHD to WD TV Live Converter for Mac. It enables us convert any camcorder AVCHD M2TS to WD TV Live MOV, Mp4 without quality loss and resolution problem and the progress is such easy.

Tutorial of converting AVCHD M2TS to WD TV Live (Lion included)

Step 1: Clicking "Add File" to import AVCHD files to Converter from your HD Drive.

Step 2: Set Output Video Format for WD TV Live. Go to "HD Video"-> "HD H.264" Or "HD Video"-> "HD AVI" The default resolution is 1080p, do noting.

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