Speed test ... which is faster?

[AlecWest]

I just wondered if anyone has attempted to do a backup using both DVDdecrypter and DVDfab Decrypter? If so, which of the two utilities is faster (or are they roughly the same, speedwise)?

[waheed]

You could always do a test. Rip the same dvd with both decrypters. Ive not used dvdfab yet.

[guns1inger]

The bottleneck will the speed of your DVD Drive.

[AlecWest]

The bottleneck will the speed of your DVD Drive.

Actually, it may be elsewhere. The reason why I posted this is because, while DVDdecrypter used to have backup read-rates between 2x-10x (or faster), it all of a sudden fell to between 1.1x-2.5x. So, my first thought was that the last version of DVDdecrypter might be part (or all) of the slowness problem ... that changes in the backup routine may have cobbled it. But just today, and after a couple of hours of research, I discovered a different reason for the slowness.

If anyone here has experienced similar problems ... namely, their DVDdecrypter backups slowing down or their burns slowing down, you might want to read my fix post here:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1326423#1326423

[fritzi93]

Yeah, I just tested them on "House of Flying Daggers", Region 1. ARccOS, bad sector protection, much like "The Forgotten".

DVDDecrypter ripped it in about 25 minutes. The log indicated it had detected structure protection, also that it had inserted dummy sectors.

DVDFabDecrypter v.2.9.0.2 ripped it in a little over 30 minutes, while v.2.9.1.0 took over 2 hours. [EDIT] No, IDE channel didn't drop to PIO mode, maybe the program was just struggling with the structural protection?

DVDShrink accepted the DVDDecrypter output, but not the DVDFabDecrypter output. The workaround was to use DVDShrink 2.3 instead, open files, select VTS_11_0.IFO (main movie titleset). Whereupon Shrink gave a data error message, okay, hit cancel, and the files came up anyway. Reauthor, drag it over, hit start/end frames, go to chapter two and reverse to one second. Main movie backed up okay then, but without compression options, so it took another go to compress it. (Worked with the rips from both versions tried).

DVDDecrypter is still far and away the best ripper, but perhaps DVDFabDecrypter will improve and I hope it is developed further. Still has a couple bugs.