Saving transcoded H264 Blu ray files?

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Is this possible?
Thanks,
Steve

synergyfilms wrote:
Thanks for that! But I'm still confused as to what the Encore Readme document means when it says "Encore doesn't support chapter play lists in Blu ray"???
I think key to understanding what that means is to also understand what a chapter playlist is, and how it is different than a timeline.
A chapter playlist is a mechanism that allows the author (that's you) to create a customized list of one or more chapters from a single timeline to be played back by the user. So it can contain just one chapter from the parent timeline, or a few consecutive chapters from this timeline, or every other chapter from this timeline, etc. - fully customizable by the author.
A timeline contains at least one chapter, and in general plays from whichever chapter the user enters from to the end of the timeline, e.g., if there are 10 chapters and the user enters at chapter 3 from a menu, the timeline will play from the beginning of chapter 3 to the end of chapter 10.
If you now better understand the difference between the two mechanisms, then it becomes clearer: DVDs can use chapter playlists and BDs cannot.

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