BD Ripper (3D Plus) DVDFab Internals

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This is a condensed version. The full version is too verbose and would
probably get noticed by the moderator police

Anyway - my format of choice is mkv. However, I now have enough toys
that I need one format to rule them all. The tipping point was the iPad and
being able to use AirVideo with the apple HDMI dongle. And yep - the largest
display is 1080 and hasn't been networked (yet). When it is, I don't even
know if I'll use my wdtvlive on it.

Part of my problem stems from the fact that I WANT eye-candy, and I can
usually tell when something has been transcoded. Granted, the canned
profiles are great, but I want to tweak to get the results that will please me.
The other issue is that I need to support playback on the wide variety of
platforms in the house. And no, I don't want to make separate transcodes for
the apple side only (although I do like mkv).

I have been doing head-to-head comparisons with profiles of another product
and have noted differences. So much so that I want to use the known
settings (from the other product) and create a new profile and some new
presets. But I am completely and utterly lost with the new format.

Does anyone have any guides, tips, tricks, best practices or anything else
that might point me down the path of enlightenment?

Or am I going where I shouldn't go?

Thanks for any and ALL help!

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Don't expect help here for another product, but for DVDFab you should try using the Profile Editor (free) to make the tweaks you want. There is a sticky thread for it in this forum. It will modify an existing profile or let you make a new one.

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Don't get me wrong - I am definitely NOT looking for support for the other product.

I do have the profile editor and have just started working with it. I have
converted some older profiles, but it appears as if many of the tweak settings
disappeared in the conversion.

The other thing that I was looking for in the profile is to tweak the quality
setting. I know it could be done before with various switches imbedded into
the xml file, but is kind of confusing with the new format.

Is this something that would be done with the profile editor, or would working
with the presets be what I want to do?

At this point I am confused; probably just too much forum information floating
around in the emtpty thing on top of my shoulders...

Thanks.