AVCHD Player » AVCHD Player Reviews http://www.avchdplayer.com Reviews on the various AVCHD players available today including which High Definition (HD) cameras need AVCHD players and more Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:29:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 APPLE AVCHD SOFTWARE FOR MAC | APPLE AVCHD EDITOR FOR MAC http://www.avchdplayer.com/index.php/avchd-player/apple-avchd-software-for-mac-apple-avchd-editor-for-mac/ http://www.avchdplayer.com/index.php/avchd-player/apple-avchd-software-for-mac-apple-avchd-editor-for-mac/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:29:43 +0000 admin http://www.avchdplayer.com/?p=85 We’ve had many requests for AVCHD players that run on Apple Mac computers. As with most things in life, there are not as many Apple AVCHD players or Apple AVCHD editors as there are AVCHD players for Windows, BUT as with most things in life the ones that are available seem to be superior to their Windows counterparts.

You can download a Apple AVCHD Editor for yourself . You can also download the Apple AVCHD converter which is both powerful and easy to use. Both these programs work with any AVCHD capable camera as used by Sony, Canon, Panasonic, JVC and others.

The Apple AVCHD Editor for Mac allows you to easily edit your AVCHD movies on your Mac using a familiar user interface.  The Apple AVCHD converter for Mac allows you to easily convert your HD Camcorder AVCHD movies to AVI for playback on your Mac using Quicktime. Both of these programs are feature rich and easy to use. Using your Apple you’ll also benefit from the renowned graphics capabilities to make the software perform superior to its Windows counterparts.

If you’re looking for AVCHD software for Windows, don’t despair, there is AVCHD software available for Windows users which rival its Apple AVCHD counterparts in all aspects.

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There is a new AVCHD player that’s been released by Elecard. The Elecard AVCHD Player is designed for high-quality decoding and playback of AVCHD Video.

You can download a 21 trial of the Elecard AVC HD Player which cost $65 thereafter. There are also options for:

  • Elecard AVC HD Suite $99.50
  • Elecard AVCHD Editor $49.95
  • Elecard Converter Studio AVC HD Edition $75.00

We have not tried nor tested this AVCHD player or editor, but do have a list of Free AVHCD players we’d recommend as well as AVCHD editors. If you have used the Elecard AVC HD Player please write a short write up of your experience in the comments section below.

Apart from the standard features one would expect from an AVCHD player the Elecard AVCHD player also includes according to the website:

Exclusive Features

  • Closed Captions support
  • DVD subtitles support
  • Ability to decode MPEG-2 video in multithread mode on multiprocessor systems
  • Real-time, high resolution MPEG-2 video playback at HD 1920×1080 at 25000 kbps, 25 fps on AMD® Athlon 64 3000+, 1.8Ghz with DirectX; AVC video playback HD 1920×1080 at 15000 Kbps , 25 fps playback on Intel® Pentium D 2.8 GHz with DirectX®
  • Deinterlace option
  • Seek forward and Seek backward options – ability to look through a movie by step. You can define step size as an interval of time (1, 2, 5, 10, 15 and 30 seconds) or as a number of frames.
  • Quarter resolution playback (Preview mode)
  • Detailed stream information from the video sequence and system headers and from the audio sample headers, statistics from the decoders and render filters. Audio stream output statistics
  • URL opening for playback
  • Support of RTSP, RTP, UDP protocols
  • Fast forward/backward rewind in the RTSP client mode
  • Ability to save the result of video trimming as an uncompressed raw data file (YV12, YUY2, UYVY, RGB24, RGB565, RGB555, RGB32)
  • File trimming and saving into MPEG-2 and MP4 formats
  • Ability to select elementary streams for saving in a file after trimming
  • GOP-accurate AVI (DV, XviD, DivX, 3ivX, etc) trimming
  • Playback can be started in Full Screen mode at startup. This mode is switched off after movie ends
  • Tracing of video resolution changes and corresponding adjustment of the Video Window size
  • DXVA hardware acceleration support
  • Auto-shrink of the video window (important for HD video)
  • Playback of a list of files as a single merged file
  • Support of Sony® PSP and Apple® iPod, Apple® iPhone compatible streams
  • Support of black/white filter lists
  • Ability to disable the file history displaying
  • Multi channel mode (available only to registered users)
  • Screensaver disabling, if playback is started
  • MPEG‑2 files indexing for more accurate positioning and file duration calculation
  • Support of the player window docking to the screen edge
  • Ability to hide the player window, when the video window is displayed

Standard Features

Supported Formats

  • MPEG-1 System Stream including VideoCD-compliant
  • MPEG-1 Video Only
  • MPEG-2 Program Stream including DVD-compliant (VOB) and SuperVCD-compliant (SVCD)
  • MPEG-2 Video Only
  • MPEG-2 Transport Stream
  • MPEG-2 HDTV (including ATSC)
  • PIM2 (AVI including MPEG-2 format)
  • All 18 ATSC formats
  • AVC/H.264
  • MP4 System
  • 3GPP2
  • MPEG-4 SP-ASP (ISO/IEC 14496-2)
  • other formats, if corresponding codecs are installed on your PC (AVI, WAV, MOV etc.)

Audio

  • MPEG-1 Audio Layer (I, II, III) (ISO/IEC 11172-3)
  • MPEG-2 Audio, including unofficial MPEG-2.5 format
  • LPCM Linear PCM (an audio standard for DVD)
  • AAC

System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

  • SSE-enhanced CPU (Intel® Pentium, Celeron, Xeon, AMD® Athlon, Opteron etc.)
  • 128 MB RAM
  • Any DirectX®-compatible VGA card

Software Requirements

  • Windows® 2000 (with DirectShow and DirectX 8.0 installed) or Windows® XP,Windows® 2003 Server, Windows® Vista.
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