Archiving BBC HD recordings to Blu-ray

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Archiving BBC HD recordings to Blu-ray

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I've a BBC HD recording made with my Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2 satellite card. I'm trying to use DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus HD pack to archive the recording to Blu-ray disc. I'm also using VideoRedo to first strip unwanted audio streams from the recording. The file is approx 4GB in size and VideoRedo and DMF report it as being a H.264 AVC 1440x1080 UFF transport stream.

My issue is that DMF reports it will generate a 12GB image on disc as I think it's re-coding the file to MPEG2 (I do have "Do Not Convert Compliant files" & XDisc ticked). A workaround I've found is to start an AVCHD project and export the file to my harddisk as AVCHD. The AVCHD file is is then accepted by the Blu-ray project without it reporting a huge size increase/re-coding. However, the AVCHD export takes hours and hours and hours.

Does anyone know how to stop DMF re-coding the H.264 file? My assumption is it should already be Blu-ray compatible.

I've tried Videostudio Pro x2 but that wants to re-code the AVCHD file as well. Would Videostudio Pro x3 or DMF 7 Pro be any better?
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