1/2 Hour to Rip a Movie

[mightymo]

I backed up a few movies by ripping them to an .ISO files then burning them. It takes about exactly 30 mins to rip a movie. I have a question about this, what is the main part of the computer that controls this amount of time. I'm thinking it's the processor. Let's say I have two IDENTICLE machines, but one has an Athlon 1.4GHz and the other has an Athlon XP 2100. Would the rip time be the same or would the XP 2100 have a faster rip time?

[SaSi]

For this grade of CPU's, the bottleneck is not in the CPU. Main spot to check is the DVD drive. It's the slowest part of the chain. First thing to check is if DMA is enabled. By default it is not in Windows 2000. Go to Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager, IDE controllers and check their properties. Go to the advanced proprties tab and select DMA if Available (The other option - slow option - is PIO Mode only). After you do this, reboot and try once more. In most cases a rip speed of X2 or less will become X5 ~ X12, depending on the Hard Disk speed and the CPU.

Next thing to check is the Hard Disk. If it is a slow disk (or not connected to an Ultra DMA disk controller with an 80 conductor cable) it can slow things down. Another easily forgotten aspect is fragmentation. Defragment the drive is unused space is broken in several small blocks. This can easily double a low performance.

For reference, on a P4/3GHz system, extracting from a fast DVD-ROM drive on an unfragmented disk should take less than 15 minutes.

[HyperYagami]

Some DVD drives (like DRU500A) are limited to 2x movie ripping, while doing 8x DVD-read in general.

[Seraphic]

like folks are saying most dvd writers are notoriously slow at ripping dvd and more so if dual layer.

Knowing this ahead of the delivery of my new Staples Cendyne 4x, I went to a local computer shop and picked up an OEM Pioneer 16x dvd-rom.

It is now slave to tne Cendyne dvr-105 on secondary ide and it rips every dvd under 15 mins. Taking into account that I use 1x media the time I save ripping was well worth buying the 16x dvd-rom.

[SaSi]

By the way, another silly reason for slow ripping is the dirty surface on the DVD. If the disk is not brand new and many people have handled the disk before you the disk surface may have become dirty and slightly scratched. Can't do much for scratches (although wiping with a toothpaste and cotton will do improve a bit), cleaning it with a damp soft cloth or cotton and wiping it dry may well help.

I did this on a disk that I was waiting for ages to finish ripping. I aborted after 40 minutes or so, with still another 40 to go, wiped the disk, restarted the ripping and the whole process was over in less than 15 minutes.