How can i rip faster?

[bballskilllz32]

I have DVD X Copy Xpress, and theres nothing in the options to say that i can rip faster. the ripping process takes FOREVER. Is there a way i can make it faster?

[fargoman]

if you are using your burner to rip it will take forever, invest in a seperate dvd reader like the Lite On at Walmart for $40. Also show some specs for your sysem as well as operating system for us to help you further.

[DVDDave]

i just installed a lite on combo drive--48/24/48/16. i have a P4, 2.4gig, 1gig mem, intel 850 mobo. it ripps no faster than it did when i use the dvd burner. how can i make it faster??

thanks--dave

[marclile]

i have a NEC 16x dvd-rom drive and i'm ripping an entire dvd in less that 15 minutes... i've read that making sure that the drive that is doing the ripping, works faster if it's set as the "master" instead of "slave" on the ide cable.

that's the way i have mine setup... don't know if that would help you guys or not...

there is also a post on this forum that takes about this:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=187112

[word]

I have a NEC 4x dvd burner, the read spead is supposed to be 12x. But using DVD decrypter it starts out around 2x then slowly it increases speed till it hits 4x. I have a 3.2Ghz P4 with 2x80GB SATA HDD in RAID 0. It takes like 30 minutes for it to copy a full dvd. My dvd burner is on IDE and my hard drives are on a different controller.

Can i not rip faster than this?

[offline]

I have a NEC 4x dvd burner, the read spead is supposed to be 12x

Read speed is not the same as ripping speed which many of us here have discovered. The best way is to rip with a DVD ROM (not a burner), have it set as master and be branded as "Lite-On"

NEC burners are not popular where I'm at so I have not had the chance to test one, but some brands are locked at a certain ripping speed and can be unlocked for a faster response - same goes for some DVD readers as well!

[ricky1756]

the reason dvd xcopy and dvdshrink take forever to rip, is that they are transcoding as they rip