Hi, i was looking long time for good (and hopefully free) codec for AVCHD.
My friend recommended me free-codecs.com. I downloaded VLC and ffdshow.

VLC plays AVCHD but so choppy that it is useless - its more like slideshow :/ (Quad core 2.8GHz!!!).
FFdshow does choppy playback as well (not so choppy but useless anyway - especially on my HP laptop with core 2 duo 2.2GHz).

I could not find any other usefull software on free-codecs.com. i found on videohelp.com a player called Splash.
Never heard about it before but it does excellent playback of AVCHD.

i dont know much about this player, maybe it is just brand new but why is it missing on free-codecs.com?
i lost plenty of time to find it and i think many people would like to use it if its available on free-codecs.

btw. this is going to be commercial player i think but BETA version available at videohelp is free.

regards
Nitrouzz

It will be listed soon. Thanks for suggestion

cool, no problem.
meanwhile beta 3 was released.

It has been listed it here:
http://codecs.com/download/Splash.htm



Note: Get it quickly. it won't be available for free, for a long time.