Would I get better ripping speed if...

[tomoki]

I used a separate IDE card? On my PC I have 60GB (with Win XP) and 200GB on the primary port. On the second port I have DVD-ROM (for ripping and viewing movies) and DVD burner. Currently I averaged 2.5x ripping and I've been through the ripping speed elsewhere on this site.

If I put an extra hard drive (40GB) on it's own IDE port on the IDE card I have and move the DVD-ROM to second port, would the ripping speed improve?

I know the disk access on the 3rd hard drive would improve since Win XP is on the primary IDE. Win XP is a bandwidth hog with virtual memory on and I can't have it turned off because Photoshop refuses to run w/o it (Off subject, anyone know why Photoshop required Virtual Memory even if I have 1024 MB RAM installed??).

[kzPhaze]

If you are looking for better rip speeds you would save a lot of money by simply installing a 16x Lite-On DVD-ROM as they are not rip locked. People report ripping up to just shy of the full 16X speeds near the edge of dual-layer discs. The rip speeds would obviously average lower, especially if you are transcoding on the fly (say DVD Shrink) but I believe that they Lite-On drive offers the fastest rip speeds available. Someone please correct me if they have found a faster solution.

[Tommyknocker]

When I find something else to do while computer is ripping, time just seems to fly.

[tomoki]

That's easy for you. Try ripping 30 DVDs and you'll be looking for faster way so you could switch out the next disc. AFAIK there isn't any multi DVD player on market that can hook up to PC.

When I rip multiple DVDs, I rip them all to 200 GB hard drive, feed it through DVD2AVI and convert to Divx and save the final on my other hard drive.

Anyway I scored a Lite-on 166 from a Walmart, hooked the DVD-ROM and the 200GB hard drive on the separate IDE card. Rips a whole DVD9 in about 3 minutes, far less time than it takes DVD2AVI to frameserve a single 25 minute show.

[Fluffbutt]

This won't help, but I have a LiteOn 16x dvd here, and DvdDecryptor never gets higher than 7x or 8x on a rip....

[Poppa_Meth]

thats because you are ripping a dual layer disk and they rip slower than a single layer. 7-8X is fairly common on such disks.

[Fluffbutt]

thats because you are ripping a dual layer disk and they rip slower than a single layer. 7-8X is fairly common on such disks.

Gotcha - I didn't know that.

Just outta interest - why? You'd think that the rip would be fast until the layer change, then fast agin on the new layer. Maybe it's do do with the lasers in computer dvd's compared to stand alone dvd's??? I dunno.. LOL