Hello, I'm a DVDFab user for a few months now and I'm quite happy with the product. I use it mainly for DVD Ripping to stream from my NAS which carry a media server (DLNA). Unfortunately, I experienced some problems now and despite the fact I installed the last GA version 8.1.6.8, it's still there. The problem is related to the bitrate. I usually work with the default bitrate (which is calculated to have a bit/pixel ratio of 0.2, enough for me). But in certain (many) cases, the result show a lower bitrate. Let's show an example:

This the settings, using "generic.avi.divx.audiocopy" profile

and this is the result (Mediainfo output)

Complete name                            : D:\DVDRip\avi\24SEASON3_DISC2_OLD\24SEASON3_DISC2.Title4.avi

Format                                   : AVI

Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave

File size                                : 430 MiB

Duration                                 : 41mn 53s

Overall bit rate                         : 1 436 Kbps

Writing application                      : Lavf53.21.0

Original source form/Name                : 24SEASON3_DISC2



Video

ID                                       : 0

Format                                   : MPEG-4 Visual

Format profile                           : Advanced Simple@L5

Format settings, BVOP                    : 2

Format settings, QPel                    : No

Format settings, GMC                     : No warppoints

Format settings, Matrix                  : Default (H.263)

Muxing mode                              : Packed bitstream

Codec ID                                 : DX50

Codec ID/Hint                            : DivX 5

Duration                                 : 41mn 53s

Bit rate                                 : 1 041 Kbps

Width                                    : 720 pixels

Height                                   : 406 pixels

Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9

Frame rate                               : 25.000 fps

Color space                              : YUV

Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0

Bit depth                                : 8 bits

Scan type                                : Progressive

Compression mode                         : Lossy

Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.142

Stream size                              : 312 MiB (73%)

Writing library                          : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)



Audio

ID                                       : 1

Format                                   : AC-3

Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3

Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)

Codec ID                                 : 2000

Duration                                 : 41mn 53s

Bit rate mode                            : Constant

Bit rate                                 : 384 Kbps

Channel(s)                               : 6 channels

Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE

Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz

Bit depth                                : 16 bits

Compression mode                         : Lossy

Stream size                              : 115 MiB (27%)

Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves

Interleave, duration                     : 32 ms (0.80 video frame)

I first suspected my DVDs (perhaps some scratches), but this one is new.
It's not protection problems, other episodes on the same DVD are OK.
I tried several variation in the settings, same problem
I tried both of my devices (DVD and BD witers), same problem
I did several tried with same DVD or episode, same problem (with little variation in the result bitrate). Seems it's not a random problem, it happens each time with same DVD/episodes while other are each time accurately ripped.

One funny thing. Windows explorer shows erroneous bitrate information:

Sorry it's in french... See "DÃ©bit total..." (meaning Overall Bitrate). It's showing 1846 kbps while in reality it's 1436 according to Mediainfo

It's really a annoying problem, hope someone would like to help me.

Don't hesitate to ask me more informations.
Regards
Lemaniac