mindlessv said:

davextreme said:

I'm going to run the film through Handbrake to watch on Apple TV.

Infinity said:

First off don't use Handbrake as that will compress the video yet another time (and possibly the audio depending on your settings). The best quality for your purposes would be from remuxing the video from the large MKV release and the DD 5.1 audio from the AVCHD release.

Unfortunately, AppleTV doesn't play well with h.264 sliced coding. It will play the video but may skip and heaven help you if you try to seek. While I fully agree that remuxing is generally a better choice, recompression is unavoidable in this case.

Don't rush to convert the v2.0 AVCHD, though; HandBrake trips over the video stream but we're looking into why.

I think my roku is having the same issue. I've tried several programs to remux the AVCHD of both SW 2.5 and ESB 2.0 and they all have issues when I try to fast forward on the Roku using the Plex app. What issues is handbrake having? I haven't converted it with handbrake, but I did open it with handbrake to see if it saw the video stream as another user said handbrake wouldn't even see the video stream - my copy, 0.9.9, had no problems seeing the stream.