How can I tell if my drive is rip locked

[Arctirus]

I have an NEC 3500a writer and an MSI x52 reader and want to know if I can speed up my ripping speed. I know some drives are rip locked but I can't find any info on mine. How does rip locking work? I have an athlon64 3500+ and using dvdshrink 3.2 it takes me on average about 20 minutes to rip / encode a dvd before burning.[/url]

[yoda313]

Hello,

HERE Is a sticky on dvd ripping speed tips. You should find something useful in it. It's in the dvd-dvdr forum by the way

Kevin

[MOVIEGEEK]

20 minutes is very fast,I would say it's not speed-locked.
You could use DVDDecrypter in ISO mode or Nero CD-DVD Speed to see the max. speed.

[Arctirus]

20 minutes is very fast,I would say it's not speed-locked.
You could use DVDDecrypter in ISO mode or Nero CD-DVD Speed to see the max. speed.

Sorry, must have mis-clicked. Trying nero now.

[Arctirus]

Not looking very good:

[bazooka]

If you can't rip at a speed beyond 2x, then it is locked.

[Arctirus]

I realized the above test may not necessarily be accurate if the dvd is not completely full. I re-did the test on each drive for comparison on a backup copy of a dvd video. These both supposedly read at 16x.

3500a:



x52:

[MOVIEGEEK]

You have to remember:
1.Most DVD-ROM's/writers will read DVD-/+R and DL(DVD-9) discs at <8x.
2.Most DVD-ROM's(and some writers) will read SL(DVD-5) pressed discs at 16x.

The graph for your MSI looks normal for DVD-/+R,retest your drives using pressed DVD's.

[Arctirus]

You have to remember:
1.Most DVD-ROM's/writers will read DVD-/+R and DL(DVD-9) discs at <8x.
2.Most DVD-ROM's(and some writers) will read SL(DVD-5) pressed discs at 16x.

The graph for your MSI looks normal for DVD-/+R,retest your drives using pressed DVD's.

I won't bother posting all the results but I've re-done this test multiple times now with different media and although the graphs look slightly different I still have the same numbers for high points and low points. I realize that a 16x reader won't read at 16x ALL the time but shouldn't it at least hit 16x at some point or at least even close?

[HatchetMan]

The closest I came to 16x was 15.5x on a non-protected dvd5.
EDIT: And my firmware said it was locked to 12x max for dvd5 and 8x for dvd9.

[Arctirus]

More tests results.. Even though the NEC shows much faster write speeds in nero benchmarks than the MSI it's 25% slower in real world dvd ripping speed and uses only 80% of my processor where as the MSI uses 100%.

Am I the only one who thinks all of this seems odd? How can a drive be sold as 16x if it doesn't even come close to hitting that at any point in the read process?