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This will mostly be a response to the 6/19/21 review by Yanta. In regard to the statement about a previously installed v. 11 of the program having been "orphaned" or withdrawn from operation, all I can say is "That's Odd." Because I am using it right now as I type this, everything seemingly going as per usual. I'm still using v. 11 because I did not like several things I read in reviews of v. 12. It is easy enough to say "use something else", but the fact is there are only a very few (like 3, or at most 4 ?) programs in this general category. Ever since RedFox took over, AnyDVD (the company) has an even worse reputation for their business practices than Fengtao does -- and that says a lot. MakeMKV is a good product, but is not sufficient for relying on it exclusively. I have run into a few discs that totally stumped MakeMKV; Fab did somewhat better with those, but I'd have to judge that they foiled Fab as well, all things considered. I'm not really familiar with BDtoAVCHD, and so cannot comment on that . . . but my initial impression was that it was more limited and more difficult to work with that the other two.
Fab was only ever reasonably good at the ripping chore, and finessing the regular copy protection. The other features were more miss than hit. General consensus had it that the supposed remediation of that audio-blanking protection (I'm blanking on the name just now) was merely smoke & mirrors. The only *reliable* fix for that was to play the BR rip via a non-compliant device, like some streaming boxes.
So, take it for what it is. But our options are few here, and I would not want to have to do without Fab entirely. I have not delved into v. 12 so far, and am not in any hurry to do so. |
