Conversion profile for anyone interested.

[marcusj0015]

Okay, so this "PERFECT" conversion profile supports all audio, subtitle, and video formats.

Video: video tracks are copied lossless from the original source.

Audio: audio is, depending on it's source, either compressed losslessly or copied over, lossy ones are copied, lossless formats are compressed with FLAC with the highest compression setting.

Subtitles: subtitles are losslessly compressed with ZLIB using it's highest compression setting.

FLAC compression options:
-compression_level can be between 1 and 12, 12 being the highest compression.

-lpc_coeff_precision can be between 1 and 15, 15 being the highest compression.

-lpc_passes can be between 1 and about 4 billion, after 8 it starts having worse compression. (tested from 1 to 33 passes, on a 24 bit 48khz sample file, I haven't tested any other bit/sample rate, but if there's demand I will.)

-lpc_type sets the algorithm to use, 3 has the highest compression.

-threads sets how many cpus to use for encoding, change 2 to how many cores your computer has.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<profile> 
    <!-- profile name - Perfect -->
    <name lang="eng">PERFECT</name>
    
    <!-- Common MKV flags -->
    <mkvSettings 
        ignoreForcedSubtitlesFlag="false"
        useISO639Type2T="false"
    />
    
    <!-- Settings overridable in preferences -->
    <profileSettings
        app_DefaultSelectionString="-sel:all,-sel:(core|special|lossy),-sel:(rus|spa),+sel:(eng|und|nolang),+sel:mvcvideo,+sel:attachment,=100:all,-10:favlang"
    />
    
    <!-- Output formats currently supported by MakeMKV -->
    <outputSettings name="copy" outputFormat="directCopy">
        <description lang="eng">Copy track 1:1</description>
    </outputSettings>
    <outputSettings name="FLAC" outputFormat="FLAC">
        <description lang="eng">Compress Audio with FLAC</description>
        <extraArgs>-threads 2 -compression_level 12 -lpc_coeff_precision 15 -lpc_passes 8 -lpc_type 3</extraArgs>
    </outputSettings>
    <outputSettings name="zlib" outputFormat="directCopy">
        <description lang="eng">Compress subtitles with ZLIB</description>
        <extraArgs>compression="zlib" compressionLevel="9"</extraArgs>
    </outputSettings>
    
    <!-- Default rule - copy as is -->
    <trackSettings input="default">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy" 
                defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString,+sel:true"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="Mpeg1">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy" 
                defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString,+sel:true"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="Mpeg2">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy" 
                defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString,+sel:true"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="Mpeg4">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy" 
                defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString,+sel:true"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="VC1">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy" 
                defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString,+sel:true"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    
    <!-- Lossless Audio -->
    <trackSettings input="TRUEHD-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="FLAC"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="TRUEHD-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="FLAC"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="MLP-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="FLAC"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="MLP-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="FLAC"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="DTSHDMA-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="DTSHDMA-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="FLAC-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="FLAC"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="FLAC-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="FLAC"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="LPCM-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="FLAC"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="LPCM-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="FLAC"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    
    <!-- Lossy Audio --> 
    <trackSettings input="MP2">
    <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="MP3">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="DTS-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="DTS-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="DTSHD-core-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy" 
                defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString">
        </output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="DTSHD-core-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy" 
                defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString">
        </output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="DTSHD-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="DTSHD-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="DTSHDLBR-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="DTSHDLBR-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="AC3-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="AC3-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="EAC3-stereo">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="EAC3-multi">
        <output outputSettingsName="copy"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    
    <!-- Compress subtitles with ZLIB -->
    <trackSettings input="PGS">
        <output outputSettingsName="zlib"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="PGS-forced">
        <output outputSettingsName="zlib"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="VOBSUB">
        <output outputSettingsName="zlib"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="VOBSUB-forced">
        <output outputSettingsName="zlib"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="VOBSUBHD">
        <output outputSettingsName="zlib"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
    <trackSettings input="VOBSUBHD-forced">
        <output outputSettingsName="zlib"
            defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString"></output>
    </trackSettings>
</profile>

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Changes 1:
Optimized flac compression, moved dtshd and dts express to the lossy section, because they're not lossless, dtshd core is now deselected by default, MVC (3D view of a 3D Blu-ray) is now selected by default

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Changes 2:
removed selection settings from track settings so the selection rules will work correctly.

[marcusj0015]

I don't mean to offend anyone, and I'd be glad to hear vetoes, but I believe my conversion profile to be optimal for lossless compression, so is there any chance it can be stickied?

[Romansh]

Maximum compression will only give you maybe 5% better compression than the default on most tracks. How is that optimal? I'm terribly offended

[crowfax]

This is awesome. Thanks for your work.

[jbates58]

i get an error when running this profile, and the the conversion stops. and clues?

cheers

Jason

[Donny Bahama]

OMG, Halleleujah! I've been banging my head against the wall for 3 days now, trying to get profiles to work! FINALLY - this one WORKS (AND I was able to modify it to suit my needs)! Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!!!

[etrask]

I like it a lot.

Can't really argue with it being perfect for lossless rips.

Good job!

[mancolh]

Is there any way to add a section that also copies the DTS-HD MA and TrueHD tracks so a person could choose between FLAC /PCM and original depending on the player used?

[marcusj0015]

Is there any way to add a section that also copies the DTS-HD MA and TrueHD tracks so a person could choose between FLAC /PCM and original depending on the player used?

Yup, just find the truehd/dtsma section and change <output outputSettingsName="FLAC" to <output outputSettingsName="copy"

[ndjamena]

http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8008

[mancolh]

Thanks for the hints. Finally got an xml editor and edited the FLAC profile to add the copy output. Doing my first rip now.

[kenneth]

I'm building a tool using makemkvcon where I am generating conversion profiles on the fly, and I'm curious why this part (excerpt from the full profile) is necessary when the default rule is copy as-is?

<trackSettings input="DTSHD-stereo">
<output outputSettingsName="copy"
defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString,-sel:true"></output>
</trackSettings>

What does this entry do? As far as I can see, no where is DTSHD-stereo (or any of the other lossy formats) explicitly set to use anything other than copy as-is?

Can anyone explain the way this works?

[ndjamena]

<trackSettings input="DTSHD-stereo">
<output outputSettingsName="copy"
defaultSelection="$app_DefaultSelectionString,-sel:true"></output>
</trackSettings>

The first line indicates this xml node is intended for tracks consisting of Stereo DTS-HRA. The second line tells it to simply copy the stream without re-encoding it. The third line deselects the output track and the final line closes the node.

Apparently the Author of the profile doesn't consider HRA worth keeping. He must have never encountered HRA on a disc because usually it's used on the main track instead of DTS-MA. I generally convert HRA to FLAC but the final file does tend to come out larger than the original, however, since more programs/devices are compatible with DTS-MA than HRA I think copying HRA is a bad idea. The best options with HRA are either encoding to FLAC or just keeping the core since the stream itself is pretty much useless at the moment and will kill any device that fails to extract the core properly (it seems the latest WDTV firmware fixed HRA bit-streaming).

[marcusj0015]

Yeah, I prefer to keep lossless audio, but if there is no lossless track, I'll manually select the best lossy track available.

[kenneth]

Yeah, I prefer to keep lossless audio, but if there is no lossless track, I'll manually select the best lossy track available.

Ahh, I understand.

But why is ,-sel:true included in the trackSettings for lossy tracks and what does it mean (the true part, I realize -sel deselects track(s))? Why is it necessary, if lossy tracks are deselected in the profileSettings app_DefaultSelectionString?