Ripping timeframe 21 Hours.....Is this normal?

[Tarak]

I ripped Black Hawk Down to DiVX using DvDx, I followed one of the guides for the settings, the film looks great but it took 21 Hours is this normal?

[bugster]

and your PC spec is....

[Tarak]

P4 2.6 running at 2.73
512 3200 DDR
2 x 80gb 7200 drives running in raid 0
Radeon 9800
and so on ................

[bugster]

Seems like a long time with that PC. Of course if you used all the max quality settings in divx it could be possible.

[Gazorgan]

Too high a quality setting isn't observeable, it just takes longer. Same thing for 'n' passes, much more than 3 isn't really going to help you very much. You'd be MUCH better off just making it bigger!!!

[Tarak]

Does anyone have a different guide that I can use?

[gll99]

My P4 1.6 clocked at 2.2+ takes about 2x to max 3x the realtime with dvdx and going to avi using the divx 5.1 codec. The lowest speed was about 4.5 fps because I was running other stuff. But even that translates to a max of 10-12 hours (@24fps film) Maybe your DVD drive read speed was slowing up the process and the rip portion was holding things up.
Did you use the ram option in DVDx and how much did you set? In the view window what framerate was it ripping at. Did you use the DVDx version for p4 processors?

[Tarak]

These links are to pics of my settings, could you please have a look and tell me what I'm doing wrong?

http://members.datafast.net.au/static/images/Image1.jpg
http://members.datafast.net.au/static/images/Image2.jpg
http://members.datafast.net.au/static/images/Image3.jpg
http://members.datafast.net.au/static/images/Image5.jpg

Thanks Guys

[rhegedus]

No real need for a guide.....

Rip the movie to HD using DVDdecrypter
Load each VOB individually into VirtualDub (the VOB mod version)
Chose what video and audeo compression you want
Repeat for each VOB
Apend (join) the finished AVIs with VirtualDub

Or, to cut out a step, rip the movie to one large VOB (there's a file splitting setting in DVDdecrypter somewhere)

[jjbodean1970]

i typically use DVDdecrypter (normally about 45 minutes to rip) then DVDShrink to compress and burn (another 45-60 minutes) - my quality is excellent and my PC is not as nice as yours!

[Kingnog]

Yes, that's normal. DVDx is EXTREMELY slow. It takes me so much longer to encode divx with DVDx than another program (like Dr. Divx), we're talking 15-20 hours