Recommended speedy PC to rip DVD's with

[snafoo]

Anyone wanna recommend a good, speedy PC to rip DVD's with? I have plenty of store-bought DVD's that i wanna rip to MP4. I wanna rip super fast, with very good quality.

Thanks!

[jagabo]

Something with a NVIDIA 4xxx or higher graphics card. Then use one of the NVENC encoders. Video encoding speed will be fast. Quality (per file size) will be moderate+.

Or you could just use any slow old computer and remux your DVD MPEG2 video and AC3 audio into a MP4 container. That will be fast (a few seconds if the VOB files are already on your hard drive) with no loss of quality, but only a small reduction in file size.

There are three properties you can optimize for when encoding: picture quality, encoding speed, and file size. You can optimize for two, not all three. So you can have great quality and very fast encoding but not the smallest file size. Or you can have fast encoding with small file sizes but not great quality. Or you can have small file sizes and great quality but not fast encoding. You can't have all three: fast encoding, the smallest file size, and the best quality.

[AlvyLad]

as it comes to hardware, what you require is a old style DVD(CD) drive- all are of the same standard speed, they all(mostly) are SATA (even ATA is merely ~20% slower data transfer speed), where the cable length the shorter the better- matters.

CPU?- literally anything past Pentium 4 is fine and for the BUS speed, any motherboard past Intel 3'rd generation will have satisfactory specs.

RAM size and type matters only tiny bit, as riping process is limited by the data conversion processing and storing, so SSD hard drive is of a greater importance.

Graphics card in relation to DVD ripping?- wut?

Them days I've learned and kept going with x32 bit set-up, and it was proven to be way easier on hardware requirements, than of those in x64 configuration. I'd say just whack some good old Win7 x32 on some old machine and it'll do satisfactory job for you.


Software and settings for quality of the rips does matter on your preferences, from the days I used to play (rip-burn) DVD's, my personal choice was DVD-Fab free version.


In short, any old style, regular rig (non mini), older PC will do fast and good job of ripping DVD's, no need for anything fancy or crazy

[Alwyn]

In short, any old style, regular rig (non mini), older PC will do fast and good job of ripping DVD's, no need for anything fancy or crazy

That's true for the "ripping" part but the OP wants them in MP4. Unless you do what Jagabo suggests by putting the MPEG 2 video in an MP4 container, you will need a fast, modern PC that will quickly convert MPEG 2 to H264 (MP4). An older PC will be painfully slow.

[ozymango]

Anyone wanna recommend a good, speedy PC to rip DVD's with? I have plenty of store-bought DVD's that i wanna rip to MP4. I wanna rip super fast, with very good quality.

Hi, Snafoo. This is an easy question -- just buy the latest greatest PC you can possibly afford, and then use it until it gets too slow for you, then buy a faster computer later on.

Have you done this before at all on any PC? What software have you used? Do you know what software you want to use in the future? Do you want to save just the main movie(s) on the DVDs? Do any of them have bonus features you want to keep? What is "very good quality" to you when it comes to .mp4? You want to save as x264 to maximize compatibility with certain platforms, or x265 for smaller files? Do you plan on saving all your videos to this same computer? Do you want to have multiple drives on it? Will this computer be part of an existing network? I'm assuming you're planning on using Windows 11? Linux? Do you want to stick with a particular system manufacturer of computers (e.g. Dell, Lenovo) or do you want to roll-your-own PC and want this spec'd down to the RAM modules? How much money do you want to spend? How much money *can* you spend?

Without knowing the answers to all of the above questions, all anybody can really offer you is -- buy the nicest computer you can afford, whatever brand you like.

EDIT: Maybe consider a couple or more "slower" (i.e. much cheaper) computers running simultaneously, instead of having one really fast computer doing everything? In my own case, for what it's worth, I've got 4 computers in my office on a KVM, and the cost of my 4 computers together is less than one new high-end computer these days (though all 4 of my computers are core i7, just not today's core i7), and some days I'm capturing video on one computer, editing on another, and listening to streaming music on the third. The fourth PC is for recording my LP collection to digital, I may get around to doing that one of these days.