Advice for Fast Copying

[chongo]

I have a stack of 30 DVD-5s that I am going to be copying 5 times, and I want to know what everyone's thoughts on the fastest way to do this would be. I have 1 8x DVD burner, and 1 4x DVD burner, both of which are on the same IDE cable. I don't really want to spend much money on new equipment, since I only have this one project, and this is the only time I'll be doing something like this.

[Forum Troll]

Take them to a professional place that does disc reproducing. It'll be much cheaper and less stressful in the end. Here's an example of what I mean:

http://www.customflix.com/Producer/Intro/ReplicationServices.jsp;jsessionid=a-TuTPs9ZpSc

(this is, of course, assuming that your discs contain legal material, and that you are not trying to duplicate and sell copyrighted material; that sort of thing could land you in jail. )

[chongo]

Well of course it isn't copyrighted, and I sure as heck am not selling it.[I am kinda anti-piracy]. The lowest rate from a replicator I have been able to find so far is $1.70/disc, and that assumes that they would take the order (it only 5 copies of 30 different discs).

What I looking for is more of the best route of ripping to my HDD, then software that would support burning that to each of my two drives at once. IF using both burners simultaneously would be quicker than just using one (since they share an IDE cable).

[mats.hogberg]

Rip to ISO with DVDDecrypter.
Burn ISO 5 times.
You could try opening 2 instances of decrypter, set them to target different drives and have them write out the same ISO, but I can't say if it'll be quicker than just using your 8x writer.

/Mats

[jimmalenko]

Rip to ISO with DVDDecrypter.
Burn ISO 5 times.

That's how I'd do it, too

[chongo]

Just thought I'd post how it turned out:

I ripped w/ DVD Decryptor, and setup two instances of the program, targeting seperate drives.

It took 33 minutes to get the two disks burnt, and both drives went at the same speed [averaging 2.4x], even though one is 8x, and the other is 4x. And the 8x burn had an error on the end, so it only plays 90% of the disc. I was using Memorex 8x media.

[chongo]

Just thought I'd post how it turned out:

I ripped w/ DVD Decryptor, and setup two instances of the program, targeting seperate drives.

It took 33 minutes to get the two disks burnt, and both drives went at the same speed [averaging 2.4x], even though one is 8x, and the other is 4x. And the 8x burn had an error on the end, so it only plays 90% of the disc. I was using Memorex 8x media.