Ripping Directly From DVD Drive Question

[Shanto20]

Have any of you faced problems with the functionality of your DVD drive after you ripped a DVD directly from the DVD-ROM?

Also, did you ever see that the DVD that you ripped got damaged?

I am asking this question because I want to follow this guide and am not sure if i should:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdbackup.htm

[easydvd]

I've done exactly that only using DVDx 1.6 and had no probs afterwards. Just give it a big buffer if you're going to rip and encode using DVDx as frameserver. You may also need to edit the avs script to specify the path for"avisynthEX.dll"

[kschang]

No problem here, have done two DVD's already this way.

[davemcg37]

am i right in thinking that dvdx is an all in 1 ripping/encoding program? if so then your dvd rom is going to get ever so hot possibly causing damage to the unit and source disc

[musher70]

people need to lighten up, if you believe you are
gonna cause damage,to the disc or the drive,which
you dont, maybe you should just not be here....

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there are still users out there that never do nothing..

[Shanto20]

So should I go for it?

[davemcg37]

i wouldnt, having looked at your puter spec, the whole process is going to take a looooong time! would you really want your dvd rom spinning for upwards of 8 hours?

[Shanto20]

ok...i guess i'll just have to do it one vob at a time...since i have crap harddrive space...thanx a lot guys.

[easydvd]

If you have enough available Ram, in this case 512+, you can set a buffer size in DVDx so it spins up the DVD and reads say 256MB into RAM and then encodes from that. When that's done, it spins up the DVD-ROM again and reads another 256MB into RAM and so on. It' won't spin your DVD-ROM 100% of the encode time unless you let it

[kschang]

On my PC, the light on DVD flashes about 30-60% duty cycle... So I would not say it is staying on all the time. My DVD's have had no ill effects so far any way.

[kschang]

And for the record... DVDX is the "ripper/player", and is in this case the frameserver (with VFAPI and frameserve plugin). I'm Encoding with TMPGEnc pulling in frameserve .AVS file. I only have a 400 MHz machine, so encoding a movie takes 10-12 hours, even just for VCD quality stuff.

[poopyhead]

people need to lighten up, if you believe you are
gonna cause damage,to the disc or the drive,which
you dont, maybe you should just not be here....

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there are still users out there that never do nothing..

errr....encoding directly from DVD-ROM like that can cause damage, since the dvd-rom will be used semi-continously for quite some time....

the person was only asking a question....you shouldn't get so bitchy about it....there are plenty of methods for people to use if they're worried about damaging their dvd-rom or disc...i.e. rip to hdd first w/ smatripper, dvddecryptor, etc....