DVD-ROM speed matter?

[johneboy]

Hey guys, just picked up a GD2000 Hitachi 5X DVD drive from http://www.piranhatech.com for only 11 dollars. Just wanted to know if the speed of a DVD drive matters, if you are using it to rip movies? Like would my AMD 500Mhz machine rip faster if that DVD drive was faster, or can it only rip at a certain speed regardless of the limit of the drive?

[poopyhead]

ripping, NOT encoding, is all about the DVD-ROM, NOT the CPU....that 5x dvd-rom's not gonna have that good of a speed...don't expect to rip anything faster than 3-4x with that DVD-ROM...

i can usually rip around 10x with my 16x DVD-ROM, so don't expect the ripping speed to be the same as the max. reading speed

[johneboy]

so say i could rip the movie at 3x.. time wise would i be looking at 3 times faster then the movie playing time?
for example.. 3 hour movie.. 1 hour to rip?

[poopyhead]

not really...it depends on the vob size....a movie that's 2 hrs can have 6 gig vobs total while another 2 hr movie can have 4 gig vobs total, which obviously will rip in shorter time than the former

but i think general rule of thumb is 2x ripping speed around 1 hr to rip movie