Savage said:A technical question: I have a Sony Vaio laptop with a blu-ray player. It plays blu-rays flawlessly, as well as 1080p .movs and .mkvs. However, the dedicated blu-ray player (Intervideo BD, I believe) cannot play ESB (I haven't tried ANH). Neither can mplayer. Windows Media Player can play the disc, but the audio will not stay in sync. Are there any other additional codecs/programs I need to get the disc to play correctly on a PC?

You can convert the files to MKV really easily. Install Daemon Tools and copy the m2ts file as mentioned in previous posts. Then follow this guide from step 4 taking care to note the audio timeshift in the ts file:

http://jamestombs.co.uk/2008-07-20/how-to-convert-avchd-iso-to-mkv/535

The best software for HD files on Windows IMO is Media Player Classic Home Cinema, it use the graphics card (Nvidia 8000 series and above, RadeonHD 2000 series and above) to accelerate HD content. The technical term being GPU offloading. It plays MKV 1080p files flawlessy for me, no dropped frames or tearing. A must for computer based HD playback, and its free and open source software too.