Toast Insists On Reencoding

[Glorious Flower]

I'm really disappointed. I have an mkv and want to make an AVCHD out of it. AVCHD disks (which Roxio apparently calls HD-DVD) have the BluRay file structure but will work on a regular DVD with Blu-Ray players. My mkv has the video already in H264, which is AVCHD compatible. There is no need to transcode it.

 

All I want Toast to do is remux the streams and add the file structure with the BDMV and Certificate folders. But "Never Reencode" is silently ignored, with no info as to why. Is there any way to do this?

 

Thanks,

Jim

[tsantee]

Sorry I don't know why that is the case. The never re-encode works well with MPEG 2 video sources but I haven't seen it work with MPEG 4 videos regardless of their compatibility with Blu-ray specs. I haven't tried it very often, either, so I can't say for sure there isn't a way to make it just multiplex the video. I just don't know.

[Glorious Flower]

Thank you for the feedback. If anyone knows how to generate the AVCHD file structure on a mac, with any software, I would appreciate a tip. I used to use txmuxerGUI, but that is broken in OS 10.7/Lion. I tried Compressor, but it won't recognize mkv source files, nor the .264 stream after demuxing.