I don’t have a problem with you working on your project, I was just trying to make sure AVCHD video isn’t being passed off as a Blu-ray, which would confuse someone trying to get the best quality available of Harmy’s work. And I was negative on the lossy audio on a Blu-ray since I think a Blu-ray player is probably more likely to be hooked up to sound systems that can take advantage of higher quality audio tracks, than most computer setups, and people probably expect that from a Blu-ray disc. Insurmountable problems with the audio tracks makes using the AC3 tracks an acceptable, or at least understandable, alternative; where I got concerned is when you stated you “ended up using the AVCHD”, AVCHD as a term represents a video encoding technology, not audio (though it can contain audio in its BD compliant structure), so it wasn’t clear, to me, what you meant you’d used as sources.
If I have this straight, you started out wanting to do everything with AVCHD video and the AC3 audio that was included with it, you figured out the MKV’s video was far better, you tried a number of methods that tried to reencode the video [it didn’t read too clearly after that if you found a way to keep it from reencoding, if you ended up using reencoded video, or if you went back to AVCHD video], and your last problem was the DTS-HD MA tracks were messing everything up and the AC3 tracks ended up working for you.
If I may speak for him again, since I posted some of the problems, the different problems were sort of inter-tangled. Encore should work without re-encoding, if your files are proper. But the DTS wouldn’t work with it. A way that some of us get around this is to use filler audio tracks in Encore, and then replace them using multi-avchd with the DTS. For him, for some reason, multiavchd rebuilds the disc in a way he doesn’t want (I forget if it re-encodes the video, it certainly makes new default type menus and removes the ones he made). The solution he went for is to use Encore with less than ideal audio files.
I would be curious if LPCM works. Should have no losses, and there is hopefully plenty of disc space.