DVD Ripping speed question?

[DzRed66]

When I rip an DVD, it takes anywhere between 25-45 minutes, I have a Athlon-C 1.4ghz, 40 gig (7200 rpm) HD, 512 DDR ram, using Windows XP (Home), using SmartRipper 2.41 to rip.

My friend has an Athlon 800mhz, 30 gb HD, 512 SDRAM, using Windows 98, and using SmartRipper 2.41 to rip, but his does it in 5-15 minutes.

He changed his cdroms and HD to 'enable DMA', and that is what I'm thinking is why he can rip at faster speeds. I don't have that option using XP, I did go into Device Manager, and picked DMA when available. But still am ripping at slower speeds.

Oh, we both have a 16x DVD rom drive.

Any suggestions on how I might can change my settings to rip faster??

Yvette

[DiViNeLeFT]

check your aspi layer to see if it is up to date... use the program force aspi...

any questions on how to do this just search the forum... this question has been asked a million times.

[DzRed66]

:wink:

Thanks, I will do a search.

Yvette

[DzRed66]

:wink:

Thanks, I will do a search.

Yvette

[P@iNKilleR]

its not always down to what U have your drive set to or what speed your system or dvd drive is. Sometimes it comes down to your ide contoler on the mainboard I have 2 identical machines.. one on an ASUS board & the other on an ABIT both with the same DVD drive... why dont they rip the same U may ask well I've put it to the controller chips on the board & there is no way around it. On the otherhand I could say my mates Pioneer dvd rips quicker than mine which it does and we both have an ASUS chipset again its faster again on someone else Pioneer due to it being scsi. Lots of questions & answers here. 25 mins aint bad but I can rip in about 10 on one and 25-30 mins on the other despie the setup being the same.

Both machines P500
both have lg 16 speed dvd
both have win2k on
256mb ram
& so on

I to cant fathom it out but as I say every works differently.

Kev!

[sommersby]

You said you select dma if available, but are you running in dma mode or pio mode, if pio mode then uninstall your dvd and let xp find it again and see if you are now in dma mode, this happens every now and then with xp, especially with dvd drives, it will down grade them if it sees any kind of glitch.

[DVantrease]

Not sure if this will help any, but here's a webpage that describes DMA in WindowsXP a little further...

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/IDE-DMA.asp