BluRay to AVCHD - HELP!!!

[Mr.Nosmo]

I'm very new to all this and don't know much about codec's, containers all all this stuff, so I need a lot of help!

A friend introduced me to Nero Recode about 6 years ago (I think it was version 6) and I have been very happy, using it to convert all my, about 1500, DVD's to AVCHD (2-pass, 3Mbps). Before my current setup, I used my PC to view the movies, but now I have a 50" Pioneer Plasma Kuro and it can play the movies directly from a USB-stick (will be connected via network soon)!
Time change and all the new movies I buy is on BluRay, so now I have a problem, because Nero Recode can't convert them! - What do I do to get all my BluRay movies converted to one ACVHD file and what bit-rate should I use to get a loosless or almost lossless encoding (I prefer to be able to encode all movies with the same bit-rate)?

Any help and/or input is wanted!

[aedipuss]

welcome to the forum!

too bad about nero, most people here won't use it, as it's garbage.

you might try multiAVCHD it's free.

[aedipuss]

forgot the other one - AVCHDCoder might also suite you, also free.

[fritzi93]

Also RipBot and BDRB, both free; they can output to AVCHD or MKV files.

[EDIT] multiAVCHD is great, but maybe not the easiest program for a novice.