Smartripper REALLY slow ripping

[ianm]

Smartripper (v2.4) is taking an eternity to rip a disc - 11% complete, and it's been going 2.5 hours. The DVD speed shows as 0.1x. This is my first attempt at ripping a DVD.
The drive is a Pioneer DVR-A03, with the latest firmware. Windows 2000 SP2. Athlon 2GHz 512Mb RAM. CPU usage is 3-10%, and memory usage about 50%.
I've tried rebooting but it doesn't improve anything.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?

TIA for any tips
Ian

[johneboy]

Hmm..
Is this the only program that rips like that? or havent you tried any others?

i'd say maybe try DVD Decrypter

[ianm]

I finally had a flash of inspiration. I noticed that the DVD drive was set to "Region 1". I changed it to "Region 2", restarted the rip, and now it's rattling along at 1.9x.
Now why didn't I think of that a few hours ago?

Thanks for your reply
Ian

[johneboy]

I noticed that the DVD drive was set to "Region 1". I changed it to "Region 2", restarted the rip, and now it's rattling along at 1.9x.

Thats actually good to know for future reference

*puts info away in a safe place* :P

[kayfam]

To be honest it's amazing that SmartRipper has held up as long as it has considering the fact the last version released was almost a year ago.

[musher70]

Sometimes, but sometimes,the oldy but goody programs
work the best....like the older versions of ifoedit seem to
be a little better functionally than the newer one...