Ripping Speed

[eck21]

I have a 1.6 P4 and 768 MB of DDR and it takes me an hour and a half to rip and encode DVD's. What would you recommend to improve my speed.

[tigerman8u]

Check to make sure dma is on in device manager.

[Phytrax]

It should only take you 20-40 minutes if the files do not need to be shrunk. The main factors will be your hard drive and DVD drive speeds in this case.

If the movie needs to be shrunk (recoded) 90 min is about right on your system. Processor speed is the biggest factor in this case.

Having DMA on is also important, though. You have plenty enough ram.

[ocks]

Whats DMA?

[tigerman8u]

go to control panel, device manager. Click on ide controllers. Click on the primary and secondary and make sure dma is enabled. Dma is much faster than pio mode. I have a P4 with 512mg of ram and a typical rip takes app. 20 25 minutes depending on the length of the movie.

[Aussie Milhouse]

Hey,

I need some help in this regard too. I have a P4 3.2 with 768 ram. It takes ages for the DVDs to decode. It says 37 hours!!! I have tried all of the above things and these settings are enabled.

My DVD drive might be the problem cause it runs for a second or two, then stops. After a few seconds, it starts again.

Any ideas??

[Alfienoalkes]

This Happened to me too,
Go to the device Manager , find the DVD Burning/Ripping drive, right click and uninstall.

Restart PC and Windows XP will find the Drive and reinstall , with any luck your ripping will speed up
Cheers
Alfie

[2greedy]

rip speed

I use a AMD athlon xp 3000+ with 256 meg ddr 400 ram and when i rip in re_authoring mode with no compression i can do a movie in about 10 mins.