CatBus said:

applesandrice said:

However, after de-muxing the MKVs and importing the video and audio streams, Encore still requires that the video be transcoded.

It's easy enough to create menu-free BDs using tsmuxergui, which is what I do. Some authoring tools simply don't let you do anything without a transcoding step, and I'm not sure it's avoidable, other than using different tools. There may be other tools out there that allow you to create menus without transcoding.

That's what I was afraid of. :( I did use tsmuxer to create a simple BD of v2.5 several months ago, but would really like to make something where I can include bonus features. I've spent quite a bit of time trying to put something together with multiAVCHD, as well, but didn't have much luck.

Thanks for the reply!