wabid said:
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."
You're making the mistake of assuming that people watch things they download on their tvs. If I'm watching something on my computer, I don't want isos - I want a file that a media player can play. Yes, you can mount isos...but that's an extra step.
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?
If you want people to download something, you should make it available in the format they prefer. Attaching the label of "piracy circles" is irrelevant - It's people who download things to watch.
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.
No, it's easier to download a file and play it in a media player on your computer than to wait for your computer to remux.
Good luck getting it to play on sony blu-ray players.
A legitimate point, unfortunately. This is why we need multiple format releases - because Sony hasn't implemented mkv playback.
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, AVCHD/BD5 is the correct choice. The people that would vote for mkv over avchd 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.
More legitimate points about why AVHCD is a good format to release in addition to mkv. Unfortunately, if you're not familiar with mkv, you probably aren't downloading movies anyway.
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.
Multiple format releases are not uncommon.
If you think doubleclicking a .bat file and having it automatically remux a file for you is hand creation, then yes.
It's good to have a healthy distrust of anything executable that you download, especially if you think you're downloading a movie. I download a movie, and I get a .bat to have the format I prefer? Highly suspicious.
