I'm using MacTheRipper to backup one of my DVD's, and it seems to be taking a long time to rip. It takes about 45 to 60 min. to rip just the main feature. I am using a 12" Powerbook 1.5 Ghz with 8x Superdrive. It seems like this is a rather large amount of time to rip a dvd. Anyone have any ideas on this ?
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DVD Ripping Speed
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I'll bet it has more to do with the DVD drive than the processors... My dual 2ghz G5 takes an average of 8 minutes to rip the main feature of a DVD. Assuming DVD drives are the same, just having a 2nd processor (compared to your iMac at 30min) shouldn't make it that much faster...devilot76 said:
That actually makes a LOT of sense because last time I ripped two movies onto my then PB for a long road trip-- the first one only took 26ish minutes, the second one took closer to 40 minutes! So it makes sense that the DVD drive is the limiting factor-- it got too hot or because I tend to animate inanimate objects; it got tired.cwright said:
My 1.4GHz G4 with a Pioneer DVR-107D (8x) took 23 minutes to rip Master and Commander (7.6GB) yesterday, full extraction.
I would have thought your Powerbook would rip faster - Before I upgraded my G4 it took around 40 minutes to rip DVDs, with dual 533MHz processors and the same DVD-R drive.
Do you have the performance settings turned all the way up?
EDIT: I've ripped several DVDs in a row and they all took roughly the same time - no slowdowns after one or two.
I would have thought your Powerbook would rip faster - Before I upgraded my G4 it took around 40 minutes to rip DVDs, with dual 533MHz processors and the same DVD-R drive.
Do you have the performance settings turned all the way up?
EDIT: I've ripped several DVDs in a row and they all took roughly the same time - no slowdowns after one or two.
I've noticed that Mac THe Ripper is really slow (or, alternatively, the way OS X reads data from optical media). On my wifes PC, which has an old DVD-RW (2x DVD-R write speed, and I'm guessing about 12-16x read speed... so not any faster or slower than my mini's SD should be) I can rip AND compress a DVD to 4.3gb size in about 18-28 minutes. On my mini, which has about the same speed CPU (1.42ghz G4 vs 2ghz P4) the rip takes about 25-30 minutes, and then the compressing takes about 10-25 minutes depending on the disc sizes in question.
Programs in question are DVDShrink and MacTheRipper/Popcorn. Oh, and FYI, it takes you so long with Handbrake because you are also recompressing the movie into another video codec.
Programs in question are DVDShrink and MacTheRipper/Popcorn. Oh, and FYI, it takes you so long with Handbrake because you are also recompressing the movie into another video codec.
Yea it does on mine too... extracting a Video_TS folder from a DVD is very different than compressing in Handbrake. Handbrake is compressing to a different codec... on my G5 it takes all day if I do H.264 two-pass encodes, while the MacTheRipper rips still only take 8 minutes
On my PB (Ti 1GHz, 1GB RAM, SD) it took around 50-55 minutes for me the other night. I copied three, and they were all in that range. On my PM (2.7GHz, 2.5GB, SD) it usually takes under 20 IIRC.
Slow for a new drive
I have one of the Pioneer 109 drives that I used to replace my old 2x superdrive when it kicked, and even that takes about a half hour to rip a dual layer disk (about 7gb). I think proc speed has a lot more to do with it.
Although I do have a fairly oldish system (MDD dual 867, 1.75gb RAM).
I use mac the ripper btw
I have one of the Pioneer 109 drives that I used to replace my old 2x superdrive when it kicked, and even that takes about a half hour to rip a dual layer disk (about 7gb). I think proc speed has a lot more to do with it.
Although I do have a fairly oldish system (MDD dual 867, 1.75gb RAM).
I use mac the ripper btw
Hi, with my external LaCie it takes about 20-25mins. to rip a dvd with MTR but again the LaCie has a speed difference than the SD of my iMac or a PB.
I should also say that with (well when I had it) the iBook 14" it took about 25-30mins. using my LaCie and MTR.
I also didn't do anything else but rip a dvd, not even surf as some may do just to kill time while they wait for MTR to rip a dvd.
I should also say that with (well when I had it) the iBook 14" it took about 25-30mins. using my LaCie and MTR.
I also didn't do anything else but rip a dvd, not even surf as some may do just to kill time while they wait for MTR to rip a dvd.
I'm just curious as to what the difference in file size is between the two methods. I'm getting tired of having massive VIDEO_TS folders on my harddrive.cwright said:
I think it might depends on the DVD in question. Sometimes MTR does it in 20-30 mins on my Mac Mini 1.25 combo drive (The Matrix, for example) whereas LOTR is taking an hour. Perhaps it is to do with encryption method? I notice that the processor doesn't seem to be limiting, because Activity Monitor does not show 100% processor usage during ripping. I read somewhere that CSS can limit speed of DVD reading.
Slow DVD rip with Handbrake
Hi all. I too am seeing extremely long rip times with Handbrake 0.91. I am running Leopard on a Dual 2.7 PowerMac G5 with 8gb of RAM and a Sony DVD RW DRU-840A external USB2 dual layer burner. I found it to be faster than the internal DVD RU DW-Q28A burner my machine came with. I am using the AppleTv preset as I am trying to get my entire DVD collection ripped for use with the AppleTV. For a 2 hour movie it takes about 4 hours. Is this normal?
Hi all. I too am seeing extremely long rip times with Handbrake 0.91. I am running Leopard on a Dual 2.7 PowerMac G5 with 8gb of RAM and a Sony DVD RW DRU-840A external USB2 dual layer burner. I found it to be faster than the internal DVD RU DW-Q28A burner my machine came with. I am using the AppleTv preset as I am trying to get my entire DVD collection ripped for use with the AppleTV. For a 2 hour movie it takes about 4 hours. Is this normal?