Speed tweaks for ripping to HD?

[Thumper]

I looked through about 15 pages so far on this forum, and of yet couldnt find a definitive answer concerning rip speeds using smartripper. I've done as suggested by switching the DMA for my DVDrom, tried all sorts of various combinations in the settings options and I still cannot rip beyond about 1.4x. Takes like 1 hr and 20 min to rip a two hour movie. Freaking long time, especially when you tack on the time to convert in TMPGEnc. So, Im wondering if Im missing something simple, or if I should try some other software, or If it is because my computer is a dinasour. Any feed back other than what I have tried will be greatly appreciated.

My system:
733 - 133FSB CPU
256 SDRAM
20 G.HD
16x DVDrom
8x/4x/32x CD burner.

Thanks again...Cheers.

[poopyhead]

toshiba DVD-ROM by any chance? they can't rip faster than 2X

[kmiura182]

Have you made sure that the DVD-ROM drive and your HD are on different IDE channels?

[stanwebber]

win95/98/98se/me is installed with dma disabled by default. clicking a dma checkbox in device manager is useless until you reconfigure, remove & re-detect the ide controllers. take a look here, http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/archive/devdes/idedma.asp

[Thumper]

Poopyhead - Nope, its a Samsung! Dont know if that is good or bad, came with my Dell preconfig. system about a year ago.

I have not checked to see if they are on different IDE channels. I actually have no clue on even how to approach that.

Stanwebber - thanks for the link to that microsoft page concerning enabling DMA. Couple questions though, its says for win98 you just have to enable the driver and make the corrections to the .inf file. Not enough information for me, : ) how exactly do they mean enable the driver, and in which directory is the mshdc.inf located? I guess I can play around with it to see what I come up with, but I want to make sure that any changes I make are reversible. Have already f**ked up my system once while playing with the registry. Anyway, too make a long question short, what do they mean be enabling the driver for win98, and also have you or anybody for that matter, found that this is indeed a possible resolution to slow ripping speeds? If it is I will do what it takes, I hear alot of people on these boards talk of 10x and 15x rip speeds, and Im green with envy. I dont mind the wait for the quality svcds, but I would at least like to be able to rip at the same level as others if possible.


Thanks again for all your responses.

Cheers. T

[poopyhead]

dunno too much detail about hardware...but i've heard that it was the toshiba's that came w/ dell desktops that was giving everyone crappy rip speeds...

could the samsung be a rebadged toshiba or are they separate, totally different manufactures?

[stanwebber]

after editing mshdc.inf, i remove the ide controllers from device manager & reboot to let windows re-detect them. i've verified this works; however, looking over the article it says you only have to remove the individual ide devices. will dma increase ripping speed? yes & no. dma will not increase dvdrom or hdd throughput, but it will free up some cpu cycles for decrypting. if your cpu is even moderately fast the extra cycles will likely be useless. on the other hand if your cpu is a dog & dma is disabled then dvdrom & hdd throughput will be affected if they have to wait on the cpu to process information. multitasking will impair the system further. dma is still a good idea because encoding will utilize 100% of available cpu resources so any cpu cycles you can spare from disk i/o operations will translate into speed