DVDx question

[ObiWan]

Okay here's another one for you. I see some people rip the DVD to their hard drive and then use DVDx. Doing this to preserve thier DVD drive. What program are you using to rip to the hard drive and what type files are you making. Would Smart Ripper work for this? Also if I do not rip to the hard drive but encode straight from my DVD drive how long on average will this take. What movies have you done and how long did they take as examples. Thanks again.

[mh2360]

DVDdecrypter or Smartripper will rip to the hard drive for you, but in DVDx you dont really need to do that. You can specify a buffer either in RAM or on disk, say 50 - 100mb. As for speed, whether I rip first or not it still takes about 8-9 hours (high quality settings) for DVDx to rip an average size movie (click the Computer Details icon at the top for my system info). As for DVDx causing wear and tear to your DVD rom drive, the jury's still out on that one.

If you DO rip to hard disk use DVDdecrypter/DVD2AVI/Tmpgenc, its faster, and the quality is much higher... (see the "How To" menu over there <<<<<<)

[dmonty]

To date I have ripped 19 movies. Should have been more but I lost alot of time burning coasters on crappy generic media. Here is the steps I follow and the length of time required (by my PC) to complete each step.

SmartRipper (10 - 15 min on a 16X drive)
IFOEdit (20 - 35min using 2 ATA133 drives. Source on drive A - Output to drive B)
If stripped DVD is less then 4.5 GB then use PrimoDVD to burn (25 - 30min @ 2x or 50-55min @ 1x)
If stripped DVD is larger than 4.5GB then ReMpeg(about 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours depending on movie length). Then burn with PrimoDVD.

Total time: 1 - 5 1/2 hours.

[mh2360]

Burn what though? I think the guy is only interested in VCD... (i think...)

[ervidel]

If you really only want to preserve your DVDROM copy the biggest (around 1 gigs each) VOB files and the info file that gives DVDx the information about the VOBs. You don-t need to rip the files since DVDx does it automatically from the HDD.