Interesting. My understanding of AVCHD was that it was an HD video standard developed by Sony that uses the H.264 codec and is fully compatible with the Blu-Ray disc format. So, if I have an AVCHD file structure, wouldn't it just be a matter of burning this to a blank BD with BD authoring software? That's my definition of trivial!

You're saying AVCHD is only intended for burning to DVD media??

I have no problem following your steps also to get the desired result, but I am not familiar with the programs you've listed. Since I am at risk of making a BD coaster on my first attempt, perhaps I will test out smaller HD source files on DVD-RW media.

CatBus said:

jdryyz said:

But isn't AVCHD native to Blu-Ray? I would think I could do the .mkv to AVCHD conversion then simply burn the AVCHD data to a BD25 disc with no loss in quality. Am I missing something?

Terminology problem. AVC is a video encoding. HD is high-definition video. AVCHD is video encoded using AVC in HD and then burned onto a DVD. If you plan on burning to BD-R, there's no reason to even talk about AVCHD. When you say the word AVCHD, people immediately jump to the first step of how to compress the data so that it fits on DVD media.

Converting the MKV to burn to BD-R is trivial. Demux the streams using MKVtoolnix or somesuch, and then use tsmuxer to put them into a Blu-ray compatible format. I've already done this.