How to play TS, MTS, and M2TS files on Mac OS X for free?

Often, when you want to look for a free HD player for viewing HD videos (TS, MTS and M2TS), there are usually many HD players for Windows but for Mac. Here I would like share with you the two free HD players for Mac:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html (VLC Player)

VLC player is a totally free multimedia player, encoder and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and files formats as well as DVDs and VCDs. In other words, VLC player can play a wide range of video and audio formats, far more than QuickTime and DVD player. And VLC is one of the most platform-independent players available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Free download and run VLC media player on your Mac. Choose File ] Open File, and select your Video_TS folder. Then you can freely view your video now.

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Tip: If you want to know more information about VLC media player, just click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_player.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerosx/files/MPlayer%20OS%20X/MPlayerOSX2b8r5FORTIGERONLY/MplayerOSXB8r5.zip/download (MPlayer)

MPlayer is a free and open source media player available for all major operating systems, like Windows, Linux and Mac. MPlayer supports a wide variety of media formats, which has different optional GUI front-ends for each of its supported operating system. MPlayer OS X is binary distribution of MPlayer (The Movie Player for Linux) and comes with native GUI in Mac OS X. After installation you can easily play videos supported in window or full screen mode.

Click the Play button and it will begin to play as below:

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Tip: If you want to know more useful information about this free play, just go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer

Hopefully this article will help you for playback AVCHD MTS/M2TS/TS files for free. If you want to enjoy ACVHD or Blu-ray on your other portable media player or devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Archos, etc, you have to convert MTS/M2TS/TS to the supported formats by them with a good http://www.my-video-converter.com/mts_converter_mac/ (MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac) because those player or devices can not accept AVCHD files now.