50-60 minutes to rip video TS file seem okay?

[snipper_cr]

The title is pretty self explainatory. I just draged and dropped a Video TS folder to my desktop and it looks to take about 50 minutes. The harddrives (SATA RAID 0) are not writing constantly (short bursts) although my DVD players light is on constantly (though it doesnt seem to be spinning at what it normally would for 16x DVD read...).

Anyways, this time seem okay or am i missing something?

This will eventually be for a DVD to DVDR and i figured people here would have the best answer.

[redwudz]

50 minutes to rip would be unusual. What program are you ripping it with? You might want to check to see if your DVD drive is in PIO mode: To check DMA/PIO mode within Windows:

Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.

From there, right click on one of the channels and choose 'Properties>Advanced Settings'. All drives should be DMA mode. The 'Current Transfer Mode' for Hard drives is usually DMA 4-6 and DVD burners DMA 2-4, DVD ROMs usually DMA 2. If you see any in PIO mode, that can slow things down.

Changing them back may be easy or complicated. First see if you can change them in that window. If not, I usually uninstall the channel the drive is on and let the OS reinstall it. This will usually take a reboot.

From there, if no luck, get back to us.

[snipper_cr]

I am using DVDFab Decrypter.

My DVD drive is Ultra DMA 2 (There is a CD drive on the same IDE cable, it too is Ultra DMA 2).

On my other IDE Channel is a single Zip 100 drive. This is PIO only however would this cause a problem?

My harddrives are in RAID 0 (SATA 160 gigs 7200 RPM) via the Intel ICH5 SB chipset onboard.

Any other advice? Thanks so far redwudz!

[MOVIEGEEK]

In your first post you said you dragged and dropped but in the second post you said you used DVDFab Decrypter :if the DVD is pressed(encrypted) use DVDFab Decrypter,if it's a DVDR use drag & drop.
I would:
1.Look at the disc for scratches,scratched discs take longer to read.If the disc is a DVDR it's possible it has alot of errors which will take longer to read.
2.Use DVDDecrypter to rip and see if it's faster.
3.Try another DVD,if the result is the same then see 4.
4.Try another DVD drive,it's possible that the drive is worn out.

[snipper_cr]

Sorry. My bad.

I actually used both. First time was drag and drop second time was DVDFab... same result. roughly an hour to rip the entire disk.

Its a pressed (encrypted) disk. Clean surface. Never watched (Star Wars Episode 1... who WOULD watch that?).

Is DVD Decrypter and DVD Fab Decrypter essentially the same thing?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Is DVD Decrypter and DVD Fab Decrypter essentially the same thing?

Basically,both can rip but DVDFab Decrypter is updated to defeat the latest copy-protection and can read damaged discs.DVD Decrypter has some neat features such as actual read and write speed,my guess the problem is your drive .

[snipper_cr]

Huh... its a 16x read drive.

Here is the funny thing. I was able to burn a full 4.7 gig disk in 17 minutes at 4x. Riddle me that batman...

[ROF]

Sounds like your drive is either operating in PIO mode or it is rip-locked to a certain speed (2x). I am going to say the latter because PIO mode shouldn't even take that long for a single file.

[jman98]

snipper_cr - Does this happen only for this DVD or for everything you rip? If it happens for everything, your drive is almost certainly in PIO mode. If it only happens on this DVD, it's the disc. Please note that there is a "feature" in Windows XP where it will on its own reset CD/DVD slave drives to PIO mode if it times out too much. Thank you Microsoft The fix for this requires you to use a registry editor and change a timeout value. Trying to reset a slave drive under XP to DMA probably won't work. The only solution that worked for me was to use the registry editor.
I did a Google search to get the info on what needed to be changed in regedit to go from PIO to DMA. I vaguely remember that a timeout value for the slave drive had to be changed from something like hexidecimal 0x000000ff (or whatever it was) to
0xffffffff. I remember that the value has to be all "f" to set it as high as possible.

[ROF]

Registry edits for switching PIO to DMA? never heard if it.

The two solutions I use is to navigate to the control panel's device manager and click the IDE Controller in question. You can sometimes change this mode there. Sometimes it might be greyed out or will not allow changes in which case I uninstall the IDE Controller and restart the OS allowing it to reinstall the IDE controller.

[snipper_cr]

The drives are on DMA mode because if i try to extract files from a data DVD (not the movie disk), the disk spins up to much faster speed and I can extract the contents of a full 4.7 gig DVD of data in about 10-12 minutes.

Update: The ripping problem seems to occure with ALL dvd-videos. However ripping data disks is no problem and writing DVD video is also no problem. Any ideas now?