Help. My 16x pioneer dvd-rom only rips at 1.5x

[TaoFett]

I am using smartripper and when I rip the vob's it only runs at .5 to 1.9x shouldn't it be running at almost 16x?

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Matt S.

[energy80s]

My 16 speed Sony DVD-ROM rips at around 3 times playback speed. You won't achieve anything like the read time of the drive, but 1 - 2 times sounds a bit slow. Are the DVD discs clean?? That can sometimes affect the rip speed.

[Taxidermista]

Maybe you need a firmware upgrade. My Lite-On 16x rips at 8x, and many people rips at x4 or x5 with Pioneer 16x drives. I use Smartripper also.

[kmiura182]

Make sure your DVD-ROM is not on the same IDE cable as your Hard Drive. I had the same problem (ripping at 1~2x), so I moved my DVD-ROM to the secondary IDE. Now I can rip at 8x. Also make sure DMA mode is enabled so your drive can burst more data at once. In anycase, I don't think it'll ever actually rip at 16x...

[Sefy]

Do these checks and settings:
1) DVD is Master on a secondary IDE channel.
2) Latest IDE Drivers for mainboard installed.
3) DMA and Sync are Enabled
4) Latest ASPI Layer is installed (4.60 Build 1021)

Ripping speed also depends on the movie, i've had movies which rip at 4x, and i've had movies that ripped at 12x as well, it all depends on how the movie was authored.

[Milkyrice]

well, ive already fried my comp trying to do that before...so this time...well...hmm...any precautions i should take?

[Sefy]

How on earth can you fry your PC by installing software ?

[stanwebber]

smartripper reports my 16x acer dvdrom speed at 1.9x avg. i had no idea this was sub-standard....it seems fast enough to me

[TaoFett]

I just like the fact that if it's a 16x it should read at that speed no matter what or at least close. I already have a dvd-rom, but I got the 16x because I thought it would read faster.

[Sefy]

Ripping is not just the DVD-ROM, it's the media itself and how it was authored, and ontop of that you got your CPU speed, HDD speed and Drivers and ASPI Layer all coming into effect when it's ripping time, oh and of course, your DVD drive.

In most cases, you can get as high as 12x for a 16x drive, while a 12x can go to 10x, i've seen a Toshiba 16x/48x drive that couldn't do higher then 1x! it even went as low as 0.8x!

Which is why I love my Pioneer which some movies ripps at even 14x (but more commonly at 6x to 10x).