DVD rip Program that Utilize all 4 cores???

[ttt0649]

Hey guys, im New to the DVD ripping scene. I was wondering if ya could help me out.

My set up:

Quad Core Q6600 @ 2.40 GHZ
2 GB of Ram
Philips SPD2513P 20x DVD-R
Windows XP x64Bit

I was wondering if there is a program out there for dvd ripping that would utilize all 4 cores? I am currently using DVDSHRINK and it does a great job but it only uses about 10-15% of the CPU.

[GKar]

I think the only thing that will improve your ripping speed is the dvd drive you're ripping with. Depending on what drive you are using you may be able to find some modified firmware for it that will max out it's ripping speed.

[ttt0649]

hmm...so no one really knows? lol

[Soopafresh]

Gkar gave you the answer

[redwudz]

The CPU speed or number of cores doesn't have much to do with ripping. It's mostly up to the speed of your reader or DVD burner to move the data. It's mostly a file transfer with a bit of decryption thrown in. The file transfer takes the time, not the decryption.

Of course we are all defining ripping as just the process of getting the DVD files to your hard drive from a DVD disc. If you are editing, encoding, transcoding, authoring or burning, those are all separate processes and have nothing to do with ripping.

And for just ripping, you could use DVDFab HD Decrypter and it might be a bit faster. It's also needed with many newer DVD backups. Then feed that to Shrink.

[ebenton]

You said that DVDShrink does a great job, but it only uses 10-15% of the CPU.

What part about "great job" and "only uses 10-15% of the CPU" is the horrible problem that you need help with?

[davidsama]

You should put in 2gb more memory also. That could also speed things up.

[manono]

hmm...so no one really knows? lol

No, you just don't know how to define the question properly. If you want to speed up your encoding by using all 4 cores, use the MT (MultiThreaded) version of AviSynth for frameserving. But that may be a bit beyond your capabilities at this point:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/MT_support_page

And/or use the latest version of HCEnc as your encoder as it supports multiprocessor encoding:

http://www.bitburners.com/HC_Encoder/

[Noahtuck]

hmm...so no one really knows? lol

No, you just don't know how to define the question properly. If you want to speed up your encoding by using all 4 cores, use the MT (MultiThreaded) version of AviSynth for frameserving. But that may be a bit beyond your capabilities at this point:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/MT_support_page

And/or use the latest version of HCEnc as your encoder as it supports multiprocessor encoding:

http://www.bitburners.com/HC_Encoder/

[manono]

Hehe, why the scratching head? Do you really think the question was about using his 4 cores to speed up the decrypting, rather than to speed up the encoding? I took his question about ripping to mean encoding. After all, he said he was new to all this. I could be wrong, though. It's happened before; it'll happen again.

If you think that deflecting the question from transcoding (he uses DVD Shrink) to encoding (by recommending HCEnc and AviSynth) didn't really answer his question, I did that on purpose. He's not going to find a multiprocessor using transcoding program, I don't think, and learning to encode will give him better results anyway. Besides, he has 4 cores. Encoding times, as compared to transcoding times, just won't be that much greater with all 4 cores being used. I'm running 15 minute passes with just 2 cores these days, when simple AviSynth scripts can be used.

[ttt0649]

Using DvdShrink it takes me about 10 minutes for bigger movies i.e. "live free or die trying". Is this fairly quick?

[noki]

for almost full DVDs it takes on the average about 14 minutes. this is usually done on my desktop Dell system w/DVD Fab Decyrptor...

Pentium 150 (P1)
512 M
120 G ATA 66 HDD
NEC 3550A

so you have a 4-minute advantage over my P1 system...on your quad core!!!!!

[GKar]

I just tried the new multi core supporting HC encoder with DVD Rebuilder Pro and in High Quality Mode was only a few minutes longer in encoding than CCE Basic (single threaded). Kinda neat watching 2 encodes happening at the same time.

[harrisonford]

If you would really like to speed up amy program,

Do the following, tab the following keys <control + ALT + Delete >
To bring up Wondows Task Manger,
Next - high light your ripping program, than right click on the ripping program, window will open,
goto last command on the list < Go To Process >
This will take you to PROCESS in the Windows Task Manager,
Next, right click again on the high lighted process, goto set < Set Priority > set it to < High > not realtime.
Realtime will cause, or might cause crash.

By this process you will speed up ripping by 25% to 60% if disk says rip in 15 to 30 minutes will reduce to about depending on DVD manufacture, pioneer is the worse, NEC LiteON, tend to be faster rippers, Plextor are very good also, but price for most is to high.

[jagabo]

goto set < Set Priority > set it to < High >

This will not speed up a process unless there is another CPU hungry process running at the same time. These are scheduling priorities. If there is nothing else that needs CPU time the one process gets it all (or as much as it can use) regardless of it's priority.

If you are getting 25 to 60 percent increases in speed by bumping the priority either you are running another CPU hungry process or there is something wrong with your system.