Harmy said:

Yeah, no reason for that, just burn straight to disc like this:

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/burn_avchd_with_imgburn.cfm

Yeah followed those imgburn directions to the letter, worked great for Empire. I only converted the file to an ISO to see if I could pull it in to a different burning program for better results. Still no luck. I'm not sure what was causing the lock up during playback at that same spot on multiple burn attempts. I'm thinking its my Blu-ray player now. Again imgburn even verified the burn as being good. Guess next step is to hunt down my brothers Playstation and give it a try there. I could have a stack of good discs.