Nonsense. I know NOBODY who is not a member of this forum and knows what an AVCHD is, and all of them know how to play mkv files.
It doesn't matter if you know what an avchd is. It is an iso file that you burn to a disc that plays in all bluray players. AVCHD is basically the same thing as BD5. Everyone knows what a bluray is. "Here is a disc, it plays in your bluray player" is much simpler than "here greg, you will need a laptop, vlc, an hdmi cable and optical out to your stereo."
AVHCD isn't some standard invented by this community. MKV being more popular in piracy circles is irrelevant. Is it fair for me to assume that all your friends who know what MKV is, are pirates? That isn't the only audience this project should cater to. The fact of the matter is, its easier to release the more complicated file and remux it to the simpler one.
Sorry, but mkv is the standard for "releasing" HD "unofficial" movies, it has many advantages and no disadvantages.
Good luck getting it to play on sony blu-ray players. Pleae explain to me the advantage of MKV over M2TS other than you recognize one extension and not the other. BLURAY is a more popular standard than MKV. AVCHD is a Bluray file structure that fits on a 8 gig disc. If Harmy want's this release to be watched primarly on laptops an MKV would be fine. But the intent is to be compatible with Home Theater Systems. What is one of the most popular Blu-ray player? PS3. What doesn't play MKV? PS3. Go ask Grandma if she knows what MKV is. Go ask her if she has heard of Blu-ray. Harmy, you have a polling bias here. Everyone here knows how to play MKV files and thinks it is easier. You need to think about the bigger picture and giving friends and tech illiterate adults discs that have never heard of OT.com. If you want a universal standard that will play with every HDTV and PC, AVCHD/BD5 is the correct choice. OS X Mountain Lion has native support for AVCHD in Quicktime, as does Windows 7 with Media Player 11(except starter/homebasic) Does Windows 7 natively support mkv? The people telling you MKV is a better standard are completely ignoring the fact that AVCHD is natively supported by all major operating systems and set top hardware, and MKV often requires third party software.
The people that would vote for avchd over mkv are precisely the people that would never wander into OT.com, but absolutely the crowd you want to cater to. The primary goal should be complete home theater compatibility, something mkv does not offer. Furthermore it makes NO SENSE to upload the same file to the community twice in two slightly different containers, when you can just run a single command to convert (remux is a better word because it is copying the audio/video stream not transcoding/reencoding it) from m2ts to mkv.
Also I can't agree with a TRILOGY BLU-RAY, I think it's a very stupid idea.
Why couldn't there be a TRILOGY BLU-RAY and a Trilogy Set of 3 blurays? I don't see how one idea invalidates the other. The ideas are not mutually exclusive. I think there would be a huge benefit to a 25GB iso with all three movies.
So, in essence, you just want to hand creation of the most popular format over to unofficial actions. Got it.
If you think doubleclicking a .bat file and having it automatically remux a file for you is hand creation, then yes.
As for bitrate, the AVCHD release shouldn't have a crazy amount of languages. Save that for the BD.
Everyone advocating MKV is still missing the point. It doesnt matter what container the streams are in. MKV/M2TS are just containers around video/audio streams, and the audio video streams are identical. Remuxing is the equivelant of unzipping something and rarring it. MKV being popular in piracy circles is a stupid reason to vote for it. If you can play MKV files you can play M2TS files the exact same way. By clicking on them.