Anybody STILL having very slow Smartripper speed?

[vhelp]

Hi all,

Anybody STILL having very slow Smartripper'ing speed and
wish they had an answer? Well, please let me know!!

I may have the answer to your SLOOOOOOW speed!!!!!!

well, I'mm in a terrible rush - am already 15 min. late
from my lunch break - but, i just had to post this
much here!!

Please get back to me today!!
Have a good afternoon!!!!!!!!!


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: vhelp on 2001-08-24 23:22:00 ]</font>

[neomaine]

OK OK...you've got my attention. My times seem ok compared to other times posted here, but faster is always better...for ripping that is.

2:10 movie takes 10-20 mins depending on moon phases and time from latest defrag.

BIOSTAR M7MIA AMD/VIA chipset
(New bios & drivers just out (8/16?) by the way)
Athlon 1.2/266
256mb DDR
ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder 32 DDR
2 Maxtor 20-gig drives (ATA/??) 5400
Creative 20/40 DVD
Creative 8/4/32 CD
Windows ME

[lin(o:]

I'm also having this problem. I'm maxing out at around 4.5x to 5x with my supposed to be 16x Pioneer 106s.
Here's my system:
EPOX 8K7A (new BIOS 7/01)
Athlon 1.2/266 @ 1.3OC
512Mb Mushkin PC2100 DDR
Visiontek nVidia Model 64 AGP 32Mb
IBM 60GXP 40G 7200rpm - primary
WD Caviar 30G 5400rpm - slave
Pioneer 16x DVD 106s - 2nd primary
Aopen 12x10x32 CRW-1232A - 2nd slave
Win2K with latest SP2

[lin(o:]

so what was the answer?
thanks!

[Riot_Inc]

My goddamn dvd's go anywhere from 1.3 to 12.5 (rarely over 2.0)
... and they're all new.

[vhelp]

Sorry peoples, but:

Case anyone was wondering what was going on all this time with my not
responding to my previous post and yours as well, it's because I was
on my lunch, and went home and quickly logged on my pc and internet.
That's why I couldn't answer (i wasn't home). And, now being 12 hours
(1pm) or so. And no, I wasn't playing the teas game, as I've seen
some on this site. I have ben SO busy this whole day. When I got
home (late), I was so tired, I took a nap, and ended up falling
asleep - sorry! Well, it's after 1am here. So let me get back on
track here.

Note: this post WAS NOT intented for those who already have high
speed ripping working for them, ...just those that don't!! Or,
for those who are still stuck in the 1.x range, like myself. I've
read here searching time after time, but no answer, though I did
try everything. Don't you just get sick of "don't forget to check
DMA is on..." Well, anyway... we all know that DMA thing, and have
ben there, done it a zillion times! Anyway

Remember, this is really just for those people still in the < 1.9x
range. I believe that those who are in the 5.0+ range are most likly
already utilizing this feature in their system. But, if you want
(and you'll check it out anywayz), you can give my "finding" a
once-over. I believe that this feature/finding (call it what you
want) is overlooked. And, to my knowledge, it hasn't ben posted here!
So, Here I am, making it's first appearance (less I stand corrected).
Oh, and also, I needed to run a battery of tests to be sure, so I
wouldn't look too stupid, making this post, so I did a bunch of
ripping.

* T H E S E T T I N G S *
================================================== =============
Ok, now for the "posible" increase speed!!
I'm basing this on AMD boards.

* restart pc and go into your BIOS
* look for a selection for "Integrated Peripherals" and select it
* scroll down to where you see
*
* ---------------------------UDMA
* "Secondary Master" --- Enabled, Auto, disabled
* "Secondary Slave" --- Enabled, Auto, disabled
*
* change the UDMA setting of your DVD drive (usually on master)
* to "disabled".
* NOTE: mine was on the "Enabled" mode.
* NOTE: UDMA may be listed as another word or something, so
* you may need to look at your manual.

I think that the UDMA in overstated and wow looking, so we
just bypass this step, never realizing DVD's full potential !!
Just look at my chart below, and see for yourself.
================================================== =============

Based on my system specs (see below), here are a handful of my movie
ripping speeds - i'll list them here and you's can compare your speed
against mine and whatever else, based on "Smartripper 2.34" :
----------------OLD SPEED-----------NEW SPEED-----------TYPE---
* Moonraker ~~~ 1.6x 50min. ~~~~ <= 9x 8min. ~~~~~ movie mode
* Alien ~~~~~~~ 1.7x 20min. ~~~~~ 4.5x 2min. ~~~~~ 1st vob
* Alien ~~~~~~~ 1.7x 20min. ~~~~~ 5.7x 2min. ~~~~~ 2nd vob
* Alien ~~~~~~~ 1.4x 53min. ~~~~ <= 7x 13min. ~~~~~ movie mode
* CastAway ~~~~ 1.6x 1h46min.~~~ <= 9x 45min. ~~~~~ movie mode
* TheFithElement1.6x 50min. ~~~~~ <= 9x 9min. ~~~~~ movie mode

Smartripper settings:
MOVIE TAB:
(o) every vob-file
(o) every vob-file
[x] unlock drive
[x] demacrovision
[x] copy IFO file
[x] create directories
(o) aspi (1GB files)
max fileized: 4000 MB

FILE/BACKUP TAB:
(o) every vob-file
[x] unlock drive
[x] demacrovision
[x] create directories
(o) aspi (1GB files)

Thats it! Just click Start !! ...and rip!!

On another note, I thought VIA's last update was FINAL!! v2.34 ??
Doesn't final mean "the end"... "no more" ??

Well, I hope and wish all those, in the 1x speed range who tried
the above process meet with success and are now able to join
those in the "fast lane" 5x and greater!!


MY SYSTEM SPECS:
----------------------
K7T Pro2-A (MS-6330) - Athlon 900mhz w/PC133 128MB
ATX VA mb - VIA VT83C572/VT82C586 pci2usb
VIA Chip driver - all vers 2.24 up to 2.34 being current
ATI-TV Wonder Bt878 auid/video
ATI Rage 128 16mb (set to 1024x768 32bt color)
Turtle Beach Card
20G ATA-100 HD (wd: 5700rpm) - mast (PRIM) - DMA on, UDMA enabled
30G ATA-100 HD (wd: 5700rpm) - Slave (PRIM) - DMA on, UDMA enabled
Pioneer DVD-Rom DVD-114 v1.10 - mast (SECOND) - DMA on, UDMA disabled
** dvdSpeed 99 rate = CPU 10% / transfer 6x+
CD-RW 12x10x32 -slave (SECOND) - DMA on, UDMA disabled
Dazzle DVC USB - pci
Studio DC10+ - pci
Satelite DirecTV using RCA phono plugs

[vitualis]

Interesting...

Something's screwy with your system... Turning UDMA should signficantly increase the speed of your drive as well as reducing/eliminating CPU load when you access the drive.

Regards.

[vhelp]

vitualis,

I guess you could say that!!
I've re-installed windows (from scratch) I don't know how many times,
and thinkgs like this happen.
Anyway, if you noticed my specs area, my CPU'age was 10%, before
all this, it was 42% - so, go figure!
Yes, I've re-installed via drivers on top, from scratch, all the way to
formatting my hd, and PAINSTAKENLY INSTALL EACH VIA VER DRIVER
and check my ripping speed per driver. if 2.24 didsn't help, reformat
and re-install windows and try via driver version 2.25, then 2.26, 2.27
all the way to 2.34 (final). Nothing! Speed was the same. Today, I
go home from work to have a quick lunch, turn on my pc, sit down,
and,... for the life of me, I pressed the DELete key by accident! So, I
says, let me have a looksees around. Went to my drives, and saw a
UDMA, and went right past it. ...but came back to it. ...in short,
I dissabled it. And, for both my HD as well. Well, when I went back
into windows 98, any time my HD got some serious attention, my mouse
would move reaaaaaaallllyyyyyyyyyy slowwwwwwww! I figured I screwed
things up, and was about to shut down. And, then a thought came to me
and said, "go see how much slower your rips could now be" ...When I
saw how fast it went and saw numbers I an't seen in this setup, I was
floored, with my mouth wide open. I hit a on somthing!
Course, I re-Enabled both my HD's (PRIM), but left my DVD and CD
Burner disabled. i haven't even tested the cd burner yet. I hope that
I get better throughput on it. To burn a VCD 15mb file take 2+ minutes
on a 4x cdrw. Well, since you were the only one to respond this late night,
You got to learn how I stumbled accross this find.

Did you see how long it took to rip Cast Away in my prev settings?
1 hour and 46 minutes+ Now, it's 45! That's a big difference!!

Oh, I beleve my DVD rom is a 9x or 10x, can't remember, 2 years old
I think. Will have to find out!

Its funny, I made some test with "DVD Speed 99" about 6 months ago, and
I remember seen the graph show 2mb, 1mb and slowly going down instead
of up. Now, when I re-run this test, the graphi starts at 3x+ and goes beyond
the top box (6.85x).
Don't get me wrong. Whenevre I would play a dvd movie, it would play with
no trouble at all. So, go figure!

shee's it's almost 3am here! What the hell am I still doing up??

Now, if I could only get CCE to work for me. If you've ben reading up on my
audio sync issues... The added encode speed would really help, but I'm left
with TMPGEnc. Course I like tmpg. It's greate. but, I just like to get a good
and successful encode out of CCE. Well, anyway, that's another topic that
doesn't interest you.
Anyway, thants for checking out this new finding from me.

[spanky]

Didnt help me at all, still only getting 1.3x.
Have to have DMA turned off with my setup, otherwise when I start SmartRipper wondows throws up a page fault and I have to restart.