FLAC Quality selection????

[d00zah]

Hey guys, I have searched everything, but I cant find a solution. I am using the newest version and would like to use FLAC profile, but with highest possible compression. Cant find an option anywhere.

Have you followed the instructions in post #8?

https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 964#p56535

It exposes a 'Profile' pull-down below the 'Make MKV' button that starts the creation process.

[K@mpfH@mster]

Hi, yes I did it but there is only an FLAC Profile, but where is the high compression profile?

[d00zah]

Hi, yes I did it but there is only an FLAC Profile, but where is the high compression profile?

You clearly didn't read the entire thread carefully.

In brief summary:

- Locate 'appdata.tar' in the program directory.

- Extract a copy of 'flac.mmcp.xml' to the data directory.

- Edit your custom copy of 'flac.mmcp.xml' & make the suggested changes:

-- Change '<name lang="eng">FLAC</name>' >>> '<name lang="eng">FLAC-BEST</name>' so that it is distinct in the 'Profile' pull-down.

-- Change '<extraArgs>-compression_level 12</extraArgs>' >>> '<extraArgs>-compression_level 10</extraArgs>'. (optional, suggested in post #13).

-- Change ALL instances of '<output outputSettingsName="flac-fast"' >>> '<output outputSettingsName="flac-best"'.

-- Save & restart MakeMKV. The 'Profile' pull-down will include the new entry.

flac.mmcp.zip

These ought to achieve the basic requested 'high compression profile'.

[eonmc2]

You clearly didn't read the entire thread carefully.
-- Change '<extraArgs>-compression_level 12</extraArgs>' >>> '<extraArgs>-compression_level 10</extraArgs>'. (optional, suggested in post #13).

-- Save & restart MakeMKV. The 'Profile' pull-down will include the new entry.


flac.mmcp.zip


These ought to achieve the basic requested 'high compression profile'.

Thanks! I was looking for this information because the scene rules state:

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    9.7) FLAC must be used for lossless mono and lossless stereo tracks, as well as multi-channel LPCM tracks.
        9.7.1) The best compression (level 8, --compression-level-8) must be used.

source: https://scenerules.org/t.html?id=2020_X265.nfo

I changed level to 8 as required.

A copy of the .mmcp.xml file with --compression-level-8 is inside this .rar:

flac.mmcp.rar

edit.

Added notes from the scene rules to this version:

LPCM_to_FLAC8_SceneRules.mmcp.rar