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  1. Hey guys--

    I have been at this for a couple of weeks now, and I have stated before that I prefer quality over speed, that I don't mind paying a little more for my blank media, and I want things to be simple and easy, but still work out good in the end.

    Well, all my wishes have been granted so far, and I'm not about to get greedy, but I do have a "greed-inspired" question:

    The biggest part of my backup process is being consumed by DVD Decrypter. I have a Pioneer A05, and it is ripping at 2X or 2.1X. Since the search feature is disabled on this site now, can anyone help me out on this issue. I wanted to see what it takes to increase ripping speed. I'm pretty sure that it takes installing new firmware, but I'm not sure if I want to do that. I hear people on here all the time saying they have hacked firmware and that they have upgraded over the factory firmware and things are great. I have also read from some very well respected members of this forum to NEVER use hacked firmware.

    Can someone help explain all of this to me and offer some solutions?
    As I always say in this forum regarding DVD issues, and as is my motto in life: You get what you pay for!!
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  2. Well, you really have two options as far as increased ripping speed is concerned. You can either use a hacked firmware, or you can by a 16x DVD-Rom to use exclusively for ripping. I have the 105 and have used the hacked firmware for the last 4 or 5 months and really don't have any complaints. I'm sure that you will find people who disagree with me on that and tell you that you will be dooming your drive to an everlasting destruction of fire and brimstone if you use a hacked firmware. The DVD-Rom drives usually go for about 30 bucks, so if you're willing to shell out $30 for increased ripping speed, then that's the way to go.
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    You're probably better off just spending 30-40 bucks and getting a standalone DVD-Rom. I think most of the burners are locked at 2x for ripping. I know my Sony500 is. I got a LiteOn 16x which speeds things up tremendously. Unless you want to use hacked firmware for burning 2x on 1x media, I wouldn't bother looking for one just to up ripping speed. Plus the standalone will decrease wear and tear on the expensive burner.
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  4. I dont trust the HAcked Frimware.Couple of my friends had some problem. these drives are caped at 2x for DVD. So they will rip oly at that speed no matter What you do. You will bw better off buying a seprate dvd-rom drive like lite on as they are not Locked.
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  5. I really don't think I'll ever need to burn at 2X on 1X media, so that takes that out of the equation.

    I really just need something to increase my ripping speed and cut some time out of the equation, cause it's taking 40-50 minutes just to rip my stuff.

    So, if I go buy a 16X DVD-Rom drive, that should help? Also, on that note, I don't have an extra slot opening for another drive to install on my Dell, so should I look to a USB drive or what?
    As I always say in this forum regarding DVD issues, and as is my motto in life: You get what you pay for!!
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  6. Get a Lite-on 163 or 166...they are cheap and will save you TONS of time. For rip speeds, see this post:

    https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=167442
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    I have a Liteon 163D and it only rips at 1.5-1.7X with DVDDecrypter. DVDDecrypter shows the rip speed, but based on the time it takes to rip a DVD it's also ripping at 1.5-1.7x with DVDXCopy Xpress and other applications.

    Anybody know what could be causing it to rip so slow, or how to figure out what it might be?
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  8. I have used the Liteon 163 & 166 based drives.

    I do conceed they are fast for ripping but I find the quality of the drive to be well under par. The optics are not able to read DVD media that are lightly scratched (my kid's are notorious at this). Also, the drive tray is easily determined to be attached on one side only, the 166 is also a 1/4 shorter than any other drive I have seen. For the $33-36 dollars I paid for each of these drives I feel I got ripped off.

    I found the Toshiba 15xx ( 16xx & 17xx ~ $38 ) to be much more accurate in thier reading but are locked to 2x speeds but using the hacks that can be found at R P C 1 you can unlock the full capability of the drives.

    My Pioneer 105 is locked but is the most accurate of the models specified here. It could read everything that the Liteon or the Toshiba couldn't. It is locked but again from the source hinted at above the you can unlock the full rip capability of the drive along with some other features too if you like.
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  9. Originally Posted by BobK
    I have a Liteon 163D and it only rips at 1.5-1.7X with DVDDecrypter. DVDDecrypter shows the rip speed, but based on the time it takes to rip a DVD it's also ripping at 1.5-1.7x with DVDXCopy Xpress and other applications.

    Anybody know what could be causing it to rip so slow, or how to figure out what it might be?
    Check in windows device manager and make sure that the drive has DMA enabled. I have both the LiteON 163 and 166 drives and with my 163 on single layer DVD's it rips at speeds up to 15.5x.
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  10. Has anyone any idea if ripping at faster speeds reduces the risk of getting a good copy or does it make no difference
    I have the sony (locked at 2x ) but if i get a liteon dvd-rom and rip at say 15x surley this must reduce the chances of a successful copy..
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  11. Short & Simple: Ripping at high speed will not change the quality of the data being ripped.

    If it can't read the data or an error in reading occurs it will be detected and a retry of the read will occur.

    Different drives will handle damaged disks better or worse, but it won't copy bad data to the HD. It'll put an error out to the effect of can't read or whatever.

    Cheers
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    Check in windows device manager and make sure that the drive has DMA enabled. I have both the LiteON 163 and 166 drives and with my 163 on single layer DVD's it rips at speeds up to 15.5x.
    Can you give me more specifics? I checked the device manager for the drive and can't find anywhere to enable DMA. I also looked in the Hardware resources of System Information under DMA and it just says the floppy disk controller is on channel 2 and Direct Memory Access controller is on channel 4.
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  13. Go to device manager then right click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" then select the the "primary IDE Channel" or the "Secondary IDE Channel)" and select the "advanced settings" tab and there you will see the DMA information.
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    Thanks- I found it. It wouldn't let me enable DMA on the DVD ROM, but after I switched the DVD to the SCSI(?) cable and put the CD writer on the IDE cable it worked- it's now ripping at 7 to 8X.

    Thanks again.
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