Compilation blu-ray

[maniachiavelli]

I've tried searching, but haven't really found a complete answer to my question yet... So here goes: I have a Mac (with Win7 on bootcamp if necessary), and an LG blu-ray burner. I would like to know if it is possible to create a "compilation" blu-ray, using clips from ripped blu-ray movies. I.E. can I rip a movie, cut out the scenes I want and burn them onto a BD (or DVD for that matter), with the following conditions: No video re-encode, and keep HD audio (trueHD or DTS HD MA) intact? I have done something similar in the past with DVD, but is it possible with blu-ray? Paid software is OK, as long as we're not talking thousands of dollars. Mac software is preferred, but as mentioned I can fall back to Win7 if needed. Thanks.

[Baldrick]

With DVDShrink for DVDs is this free and kinda simple but for Blu-rays... Maybe you could cut out short clips with the full version dvdfab. Then reauthor the clips with multiavchd. Windows only tools.

[maniachiavelli]

With DVDShrink for DVDs is this free and kinda simple but for Blu-rays... Maybe you could cut out short clips with the full version dvdfab. Then reauthor the clips with multiavchd. Windows only tools.

Thanks, DVDfab did allow me to rip specific chapters, just what I needed.

[maniachiavelli]

Guess I was a bit quick... Ripping works flawlessly. However, I have trouble getting those rips onto a playable BD-R. I've tried using MultiAVCHD, but it seems very buggy, the program hangs randomly. I've tried TSMuxer, but it can't handle Dolby TrueHD. ClownBD works flawlessly, but only one MKV per disc. Is there any software that can be recommended, for an easy way to get a bunch of MKV's (or M2TS I guess) onto a bluray, with no reencode of video or audio - that supports TrueHD Audio? I don't need menus or anything...

[Baldrick]

Maybe Avchdcoder.

[maniachiavelli]

Maybe Avchdcoder.

Doesn't find the TrueHD audio track...

[maniachiavelli]

Okay, got MultiAVCHD working - rookie mistake, I made sure that I had enough drive space on the output folder, but the temp folder was on a drive which doesn't have enough space... (because I'm running Boot Camp, I don't have much space on my Windows drive). Moving the temp folder to a big enough drive solved the issues... I still have trouble when working with MKV's, but that's not really an issue as I can just rip to M2TS, which works. So, for reference, my working workflow is:

DVDfab to rip specific chapters to M2TS
MultiAVCHD to author a list of M2TS files to bluray

Easy peasy. Now - just one more thing... When I play my brand new super-duper demo disc, I can't skip from title to title, I have to bring up the menu to choose each title. Is it possible to author the disc in a way that lets me easily skip between each title? (on an Oppo BDP-93, if that matters).

[Baldrick]

Great! Thanks for posting your solution.