On Fri, May 29, 2020, 05:02 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy,

A few weeks ago, I ran up on a deal on a Blu-ray burner.  It's a LG and
smartctrl -i shows this:


=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               HL-DT-ST
Product:              BD-RE  WH16NS40
Revision:             1.04
Compliance:           SPC-3
>> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more
'-T permissive' options.



Anyway, I have some HD videos I want to burn to a Blu-ray disc in HD. 
I've used Devede and Devedeng to create DVDs for a while.  I prefer the
old Devede but the new ng version works well.  It doesn't however seem
to create Blu-ray discs.  I googled and found how to play some of them
at least that are commercially made.  I can't find however what software
is used to create my own. 

Does anyone know what software to use to create HD video Blu-ray discs? 

You're referring to Blu-ray authoring like creating menus and making a video disc that works in a set-top player. There isn't any software for Linux I know of that does this, especially the menu part. The menu part can be in a simple format or it can be more advanced with BD-J.

Studios use Scenarist BD https://www.scenarist.com/scenarist-bd-professional-blu-ray-disc-authoring/

There's MultiAVCHD for free. Maybe it works with Wine?