How do you add a new profile?

[GWild]

Searched forums, found only one small walk-through, and following it didn't work.

For example, I've created a new profile: mp4.h264.WDTV.1080p.xml

I want to add it to the MP4 list, as the default, so I've added this to the header: <profile name="mp4.h264.WDTV.1080p" version="200" device="mp4" tag="dvdfab,default" ...

I've added the file to the Profile and Profile2 folders; tried many permutations of file names and internal tag/device/profile text , but nothing shows up in any of the Customize UI menus.

Can someone follow up here with a detailed walk through of how to add a new profile to the DVDFab menus (I'd like this profile to be the default whenever a Blu-Ray Disk is inserted).

Thanks...


ps: Other mysteries include: how do you designate which product a profile is for (DVD Copy or DVD Rip), or class of device (iPob, generic, etc.)

[GWild]

Ok, I've found that the version 200 doesn't work, that 300 is required.

Next problem is I want the output to be 1920x1080... setting that directly doesn't seem to work, all I get is the odd list 1680x906 down to 240x120 or similar.

Here's my profile:

<profile name="mp4.h264.HDTV.1080p" version="300" device="mp4" tag="dvdfab,default" description="Rip BD/DVD to 1080/24p mp4 (h264 + aac), which can be played on Sony TVs and PCs.">
<common>
<file format="mp4" mode="1" onefile_size_mb="15000" number="1" />
<device channel_ability="2" />
<audio codec="aac" channel="2" bitdepth="16" >
<channels mode="3" />
<freq value="48000" list="48000" />
<bitrate value="448000" list="96000,448000" muti_value="/1:96000/2:96000/6:448000/" />
<volume percent="100" />
</audio>
<video>
<size out_size="1920x1080" maxsize="1920x1080" />
<subtitle mode="0" />
<outfps mode="1" list="23.976,24,29.97,30,60" />
<deinterlace mode="2" method="0" />
<!-- mode: 0-Auto, 1-Force, 2-Disable (Movies at 24fps shouldn't be interlaced) -->
<encode codec="h264" bitrate_kbps="7500" minbitrate_kbps="5000" maxbitrate_kbps="10000" >
<mode value="high_quality" list="real_time, high_quality" />
<x264 preset="x264_WDTV_High_Quality.preset" />
</encode>
</video>
</common>
<acodec name="faac">
<common profile="1" quality="100" />
</acodec>
</profile>

[GregiBoy]

I just did a test.

I renamed generic.avi.xvid.audiocopy as GDK.avi.xvid.audiocopy and edited the profile header to read GDK.avi.xvid.audiocopy and the device = "GDK".

I then went to "Customise UI' for DVD Ripper -> Add and the GDK Device showed up.

From memory, if you add the device, then move it to the top of the list, it is then the default for that module.

There are some details of profile parameters in the Profiles/Readme directory but it WAY out-of-date.

[GWild]

More experimentation and I see that the video settings are defaulting to 20% and 25% zoom. And the size list and maxsize is staying at 1680 regardless of settings. The size list doesn't seem to work as implied. So what is the correct syntax to set the profile video OUTPUT ZOOM and SIZE to achieve a 1 to 1 format of 1920x1080 ?

This doesn't work: <size list="1920x1080,1280x720" maxsize="1920x1080" />