DVDx Concerns

[Shannafey]

I have been making vcds and svcds with my capture card for a while now. Mainly to play on my dvd player, but I finally got a DVD Rom drive for my pc and wanted to start ripping. Unfortunately I have an old AMD K6 2/350 and it is slow!!! The DVDs tend to get pretty hot when I take them out of the drive. Should I be concerned? Also, in regards to DVDx, it would probably take over 24 hours to rip a DVD, so this is why I am concerned with the heat issue. Can this damage the DVD? Have any of you seen this or had experiences with this issue? Please tell me.

[sumibas02]

hi,

try to rip the dvd using smartripper or claddvd to your hard drive and then use DVDX to convert it to VCD. Please dont directly rip from the DVD drive it will damage the DVD rom and also may be the DVD since if it over heats is may melt or break. i had a such problem before when i directly riped form the DVD. you can find these tools in the Tools section

Baskaran

[Mirror_Image]

The other thing you can do is to look at the intput settings of DVDx. See the place on the lower right side, "Save you DVD drive"? Set a buffer size (I use 100MB but use whatever you like), and it will rip 100MB (or whatever you typed in) to the HDD or RAM (your choice) and then the DVD drive stops spinning. After it gets through converting the 100MB, the DVD drive spins for a few seconds while it rips another 100MB (or whatever you set it to). As DVDx HELP says:

Save your DVD drive:
Create a temporary buffer to avoid the drive to be switched on/off too much.
If you use a RAM buffer you may disable virtual memory to get more speed.
The file will be write in your Windows temporary directory (TMP environement variable).
Default is : 10Meg in RAM

[danalmsa]

From what I have read, ripping directly from your DVD drive with DVDx can eventually burn out your drive(Many have reported that happening). If it's possible, rip to your hard drive with Smart Ripper and then run DVDx off of the harddrive.


Hope this helps

[MicoMan]

Not everyone has 6 or more GB free to copy the whole DVD to there hard drive like me.

I use DVDx and I put 100 in RAM and my drive seems fine. I only use my DVD rom drive for ripping and at £37 I'm not bothered if it did burn out. I do hope it does it while its under warranty!

20 hours! Have you played with the setting for quality. I changed the setting to integer? and it dropped my rip from 15 hours to under 8 with my Duron 800. Quality still very good.

[Shannafey]

Thank you one and all for your very informative replies. I have seen that buffer setting, and was wondering how to use it. I have plenty of hd space. I have a 30gig just for video editing, so space wasn't the problem, it was a convenience issue, but I think I will just use smartripper and take it off the dvd. I don't won't to burn up the drive. I will eventually get a faster motherboard and processor anyway.
Thanks again.

[danalmsa]

Good choice, given the options you have. It may add a few more minutes to your Ripping process, but it will save your DVD drive in the long run.

[kwag]

You may want to consider a fast CPU ( Pentium 4 1.6 GHZ ).

Right now, that is what I have, and I don't even rip to HD!.

Just authenticate the DVD and use Xmpeg, VideoServer, and TMPeg.

I usually convert at about .8x to .9x real time speed with this method. So a 2 hour movie usually takes between 2:15 to 2:30 to convert to a standard VCD.

Because it's almost real time, the DVD motor doesn't spin down, which is the cause of DVD drive burnouts, specially with Dup-DVD, Moviejack, and DVDx, as reported by some users.


kwag