iTunes 8 - will it rip DVD's...?

[GFLPraxis]

the fact is it is just waaay too slow at the moment for the average user to bother with DVD ripping. When the average computer is fast enough to do it in real time, maybe, but we are far away from that at the moment (btw, 'average user' doesnt mean 'average Macrumors user' ).

What, have you ever used Handbrake? My 1-year-old Core Duo MacBook can rip a 1.5-2 hour movie and encode it in MPEG-4 in half an hour flat. That's considerably faster than real time.

We're talking about Apple's slowest notebook over a year and a half ago being able to rip at double/triple-real-time speeds

 

[DoFoT9]

..... the fact is it is just waaay too slow at the moment for the average user to bother with DVD ripping. When the average computer is fast enough to do it in real time, maybe, but we are far away from that at the moment (btw, 'average user' doesnt mean 'average Macrumors user' ). Plus Apple would quite like you to buy its iTMS content, thankyouverymuch.

What, have you ever used Handbrake? My 1-year-old Core Duo MacBook can rip a 1.5-2 hour movie and encode it in MPEG-4 in half an hour flat. That's considerably faster than real time.

We're talking about Apple's slowest notebook over a year and a half ago being able to rip at double/triple-real-time speeds

yes i have to agree with GLFP here. my year old CD mbp can rip at 90frames ps (ipod quality), which is just about tripple time. the mp's also do alot fast then that.

as for ripping....thats about a 15minute process, depending on how fast your drive is.

 

[FleurDuMal]

What, have you ever used Handbrake? My 1-year-old Core Duo MacBook can rip a 1.5-2 hour movie and encode it in MPEG-4 in half an hour flat. That's considerably faster than real time.

We're talking about Apple's slowest notebook over a year and a half ago being able to rip at double/triple-real-time speeds

Yeah I have. I was talking about h.264. As this is the format that Apple really seems to be pushing (is it not what all their video is encoded in?), I would assume it would be what iTunes incorporated if it every happened. I always use h.264 as I don't mind waiting for good quality rips. I just don't think your average consumer would be quite so tolerant.