Decrypter fast, then slow

[hallesdaddy]

Hi all.

Has anyone else experienced this with DVD Decrypter? I rip one DVD to my hard drive and it whizzes through in about 10-15 minutes. The next one, however, takes 2-3 hours. What's causing this?

Is the 15 minutes normal or the 2 hours? Or somewhere in between? Is there anything that can be done to make them all quicker?

Any ideas are appreciated.

HD

[Firk99]

About 15 minutes on a 16 speed dvddrive is normal for a DVD9 (2 layers).

2 hours is not, was the disk dirty ? Were there any scratches ? Did decrypter report read errors ?

[hallesdaddy]

The disk was relatively clean. Decrypter finished with no errors. It happens like every third disk.

HD

[Shudder]

Check to see if it's encrypted, and are you using your dvdrw to rip? Encrypted discs are usually locked at about 2x, but that's still quite long to be hitting 2-3 hours (unless you're exaggerating).

Otherwise make sure your discs are clean and your reader is clean. Or maybe you don't have 4-8 gigs of contiguous space on your hard drive, so it takes longer to arrange it if it's not defragmented.

[Jayhawk]

hallesdaddy, when you say the 1st takes 15 minutes and the next takes hours is the 15 minutes one just after power up, or has the machine been on a while.

My train of thought is along heat or memory lines. Shudder raises a good point about fragmentation. Could you try a test for us (or maybe you have already). Try ripping a movie as you normally do when you get the 15 minutes. Don't remove the disc and rip the SAME movie again saving under a different name (ie: Test-1 and Test-2). That would elinate the clean / dirty argument and may point to hardware.

Let us know what your times are.

[hallesdaddy]

I think I figured it out. For some reason, it was alternating ripping to my C: drive, then to my D: drive, which is external. When it rips to my C: drive, no problem. Ripping to the D: drive slows it down.

Thanks for all the input, guys!

HD