Best Free M2TS Player

What is m2ts file format?

M2TS is a filename extension used for the Blu-ray Disc Audio-Video (BDAV) MPEG-2 Transport Stream (M2TS) container file format. It is based on the MPEG-2 transport stream container. This container format is commonly used for high definition video on Blu-ray Disc and AVCHD.

List of free M2TS player for Windows and Mac

Have some M2TS videos which are recorded from your Sony HD camcorder or from Blu-ray disc, but have no idea which application on your PC or Mac can be used to play and view those M2TS files. The following part will share you some free yet powerful M2TS player to conveniently view M2TS files on both Windows and Mac.

1. BS Player

As one of the best multimedia players in the world, BS Player supports all popular video and audio media file types, containers and formats such as:
WebM, Xvid, avi, mpg, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, mpeg-4, 3ivx, YouTube streaming video, AVC HD (avchd player), QT QuickTime mov, RM Real media, OGM, Matroska , mkv, asf, wmv, DV, m1v, m2v, mp4, mpv, swf, vob and wav, mpa, mp1, mp2, mp3, Ogg, aac, aif, ram, wma, flv (Flash and YouTube Video) and much more!

2. 5K Player (for Windows and Mac)

5KPlayer can delivers a better solution to play Blu-ray and AVCHD M2TS videos. As for M2TS video with 1080i signal, the picture you see from computer is not as clear as 1080p. But thanks to 5KPlayer's Advanced De-interlacing Engine (transfer and interpret 1080i M2TS video from interlacing to progressive scanning), you are ensured with significantly more clear and sharper images and enhanced visual quality. Moreover, it's not only a M2TS players, but versatile HD video player enabling to play HD videos like MKV, H264 and popular video formats like MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG, etc.

3. VLC (for Windows and Mac)

VLC Players can play M2TS files on both Mac and Windows. VLC Media Player can play back the content H.264 video and AC3 audio i.e. M2TS Files directly without any support of any external factor. To play M2TS files on Windows, all you need is to open VLC Player, click on the Menu Option, Go to the open file option. Then you are required to Browse button and navigate to the place where the M2TS file is stored in your computer. Select the file, which you want to play and click OK and VLC will start playing the M2TS video you chose.

Problems when playing M2TS files with free M2TS player

Sometimes, due to the Blu-ray copy protections, such as the BD+ used on Blu-ray disc, it is impossible to copy the M2TS files from Blu-ray disc to computer hard drive to play with above listed free M2TS players directly. In that condition, you will need a specific application to bypass that protection.

One the other hand, the playback of the highly compressed AVCHD video will be very CPU intensive, in addition, some interlaced AVCHD video will also eats ton of calculating source. Therefore, you won't get a better playback experience when viewing some raw M2TS files with above listed free M2TS players. Then it would be a good solution to decode M2TS to some less intensive formats or deinterlace AVCHD video into progressive form.

Best free M2TS player assistant

To fix the M2TS playback problem listed above, here, we highly recommend you to download the best free M2TS player assistant - Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate to you. The program has full importing support for M2TS files from both BD+ protected Blu-ray disc and also Sony HD camcorder. Thanks to its batch conversion mode, you can load multiple M2TS files into the application for conversion at one time.

With this beneficial application, you can not only play M2TS files with its built-in video preview window, but also convert M2TS files to various other popular digital file formats such as MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, MKV, MPG, FLV, WebM, 3GP, etc or hot devices and editing application preset profile formats. It offers advanced output profile parameters tweaking functions for you to flexibly adjust output video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate and audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc to get the best output video and audio quality.

For Mac users, you can switch to download Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac to solve M2TS file playback problem on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite, Mac OS X Mavericks, etc.

Deinterlace 1080i interlaced M2TS video

If the M2TS video is 1080i interlace video, the artifacts on the video may be more visible when interlaced video is displayed at a slower speed that it was captured. In that condition, you can use the "Deinterlace" function offered by the program to change the video into progressive form to get a better visual effect.

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