Mkv avchd pointers

[romanticwarrior]

I've done a bit of research and testing re this but can't quite crack it,time as a busy father is scarce!

Basically i wish to create AVCHD discs for playback on blu-ray player from MKV files that are around 8gb in size.

I'm using 8.5gb discs so i can't exceed that size.

Therefore i want to convert WITHOUT increasing file size,happy to shrink it if required (a la dvd shrink) but without detectable quality loss,but ideally a straight conversion retaining original file size would be best .

Maybe i need to create an image file and burn straight to disc with img burn?

Expert help please.

[guns1inger]

MultiAVCHD is the simplest method to ensure that the video is compliant (most MKV files have been cropped and have to be re-encoded with the correct letterboxing added), and authored correctly. The results can then be burned with imgburn.

[romanticwarrior]

great thanks for the quick reply i'll get right on it!

[guns1inger]

If your video is already compliant (1280 x 720 resolution etc.) then you can use TSMuxer to create a standard AVCHD structure, but you get no menus.

[multiAVCHD]

I'll add (as I did many times in the past) that tsMuxeR AVCHD-disc mode does NOT create 'standard' AVCHD structure. It creates Blu-ray structure (folder/file wise) with a minor change to index.bdmv and that doesn't make the output AVCHD compliant.

[twazerty]

Try AVCHDCoder. Does everything you need.