Well I just bought my first Blu-ray audio disc, and I'm having a bit of difficulty getting it to play in Media Center.
The main album works fine, as that's a "video" (just a blank screen showing the track names) with a PCM stereo track and a DTS-HD multichannel track.
But most of the other titles on the disc won't play. Media Center hangs at "opening..." for 30-60 seconds, and eventually I get a black screen and playback appears to be paused. (progress bar doesn't move)
If there's a video it seems to work fine, but I think the ones which are hanging are audio only.
It also looks like there are tracks on the disc which don't have playlists associated with them, as I can't seem to find all of the bonus tracks - but I guess that's because they expected them to be accessed via BD Menus/Java.
Browsing the disc via Explorer, I am able to load the audio-only m2ts files directly, and they do play in Media Center - I'm just having some difficulty figuring out what tracks they are.
I think there is something odd going on with the authoring though - I thought I'd try ripping the audio out of the M2TS files and putting them into MKAs, but MKVmerge is giving me a "The input file does not contain any tracks" error with some of them - though Media Center doesn't have a problem playing them when I load them directly. (rather than via a playlist)
I think I'll be able to figure something out (I'll probably use Media Center to convert from DTS-HD to FLAC since it can play these files) but I was wondering if anything could be done to improve the playback of these "audio-only" playlists.
