diff --git a/src/handlers/FFmpeg.ts b/src/handlers/FFmpeg.ts
index 33a62c2a..34621915 100644
--- a/src/handlers/FFmpeg.ts
+++ b/src/handlers/FFmpeg.ts
@@ -236,6 +236,32 @@ class FFmpegHandler implements FormatHandler {
       category: "video"
     });
 
+    // Add .mts (AVCHD) support - camcorder footage using the MPEG-TS container.
+    // FFmpeg auto-discovers "mpegts" but assigns the ".ts" extension, leaving
+    // ".mts" files (JVC, Sony, Panasonic AVCHD camcorders) unrecognised.
+    this.supportedFormats.push({
+      name: "AVCHD Video",
+      format: "mts",
+      extension: "mts",
+      mime: "video/mp2t",
+      from: true,
+      to: false,
+      internal: "mpegts",
+      category: "video"
+    });
+
+    // Add .m2ts (Blu-ray BDMV) support - same MPEG-TS container, different extension.
+    this.supportedFormats.push({
+      name: "Blu-ray BDMV Video",
+      format: "m2ts",
+      extension: "m2ts",
+      mime: "video/mp2t",
+      from: true,
+      to: false,
+      internal: "mpegts",
+      category: "video"
+    });
+
     // Normalize Bink metadata to ensure ".bik" files are detected by extension.
     const binkFormats = this.supportedFormats.filter(f =>
       f.internal === "bink"
diff --git a/src/handlers/avchd.ts b/src/handlers/avchd.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4d3cd88d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/handlers/avchd.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+import type { FileData, FileFormat, FormatHandler } from "../FormatHandler.ts";
+import JSZip from "jszip";
+
+/**
+ * AVCHD ZIP handler.
+ *
+ * macOS silently zips an AVCHD folder when you drag it into a browser —
+ * the user ends up uploading a .zip instead of the individual .mts files
+ * inside BDMV/STREAM/.  This handler unpacks such a ZIP and returns every
+ * .mts / .m2ts file it finds, so the graph can route them through FFmpeg.
+ *
+ * Conversion path:  ZIP (avchd) → MTS  (then FFmpeg takes it to MP4/etc.)
+ */
+class avchdHandler implements FormatHandler {
+
+  public name: string = "AVCHD Extractor";
+  public supportedFormats: FileFormat[] = [];
+  public ready: boolean = false;
+
+  async init () {
+    this.supportedFormats = [
+      // Input: a ZIP that wraps an AVCHD package
+      {
+        name: "AVCHD Package (ZIP)",
+        format: "avchd-zip",
+        extension: "zip",
+        mime: "application/zip",
+        from: true,
+        to: false,
+        internal: "avchd-zip",
+        category: "video"
+      },
+      // Output: raw MTS files extracted from the ZIP
+      {
+        name: "AVCHD Video",
+        format: "mts",
+        extension: "mts",
+        mime: "video/mp2t",
+        from: false,
+        to: true,
+        internal: "mts",
+        category: "video"
+      }
+    ];
+    this.ready = true;
+  }
+
+  async doConvert (
+    inputFiles: FileData[],
+    _inputFormat: FileFormat,
+    _outputFormat: FileFormat
+  ): Promise<FileData[]> {
+
+    const results: FileData[] = [];
+
+    for (const file of inputFiles) {
+      const zip = await JSZip.loadAsync(file.bytes);
+      const mtsEntries = Object.values(zip.files).filter(entry =>
+        !entry.dir &&
+        /\.(mts|m2ts)$/i.test(entry.name)
+      );
+
+      if (mtsEntries.length === 0) {
+        throw `No .mts or .m2ts files found inside ${file.name}`;
+      }
+
+      for (const entry of mtsEntries) {
+        const bytes = await entry.async("uint8array");
+        // Use just the filename, not the full path inside the ZIP
+        const name = entry.name.split("/").pop()!;
+        results.push({ name, bytes });
+      }
+    }
+
+    return results;
+  }
+
+}
+
+export default avchdHandler;
diff --git a/src/handlers/index.ts b/src/handlers/index.ts
index 0c6fae4b..607cd498 100644
--- a/src/handlers/index.ts
+++ b/src/handlers/index.ts
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ import xcursorHandler from "./xcursor.ts";
 import shToElfHandler from "./shToElf.ts";
 import cssHandler from "./css.ts";
 import TypstHandler from "./typst.ts";
+import avchdHandler from "./avchd.ts";
 
 const handlers: FormatHandler[] = [];
 try { handlers.push(new svgTraceHandler()) } catch (_) { };
@@ -150,5 +151,6 @@ try { handlers.push(new xcursorHandler()) } catch (_) { };
 try { handlers.push(new shToElfHandler()) } catch (_) { };
 try { handlers.push(new cssHandler()) } catch (_) { };
 try { handlers.push(new TypstHandler()) } catch (_) { };
+try { handlers.push(new avchdHandler()) } catch (_) { };
 
 export default handlers;