Ripping DVD's? TRUE OR FALSE?

[TommyLee]

Handbrake rips my movies very slowly. (about the time it takes to watch it!)

Am I correct in thinking I can increase rip time by maxing out my ram and buying the fastest DVD drive money can buy? What IS the fastest DVD drive anyway?

 

[aross99]

I think the processing power or CPU of your computer makes has the biggest impact on the speed of ripping DVD's. If you want to speed up your rips, get a faster CPU...

 

[TommyLee]

now im stumped.
My Dell OptiPlex 320 has a 3.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 2GB ram and a 16x DVD...

any idea why it would go so slow?

 

[dukebound85]

I think the processing power or CPU of your computer makes has the biggest impact on the speed of ripping DVD's. If you want to speed up your rips, get a faster CPU...

that is correct

now im stumped.
My Dell OptiPlex 320 has a 3.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 2GB ram and a 16x DVD...

any idea why it would go so slow?

well what settings you have plays a big part on conversion. also, processes in the background may be running which would slow performance

 

[CANEHDN]

I use the fastest publicly available DVD drive at work and I rip DVDs way faster than I can on my iMac. The drive is probably the biggest hinderance to ripping. The problem is that when you connect an external DVD drive you won't see speeds like an internal drive. I wish Apple would upgrade all Macs to include the fastest drives available. It's kind of ridiculous.

 

[Eidorian]

now im stumped.
My Dell OptiPlex 320 has a 3.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 2GB ram and a 16x DVD...

any idea why it would go so slow?

That's definitely a processor bottleneck.

 

[TommyLee]

I heard somewhere that even though DVD drives read at 16x that some drive manufactures put protection on the drive so that you can only rip at 1 or 2x... any truth to that?

 

[TommyLee]

That's definitely a processor bottleneck.

how so, i have a 3.2 ghz Pentium 4

 

[aross99]

how so, i have a 3.2 ghz Pentium 4

There is a significant performance advance with the Core 2 Duo CPU's over the older Pentium 4's....

 

[grapes911]

When ripping a DVD, the optical drive is the bottleneck. When encoding a DVD as another format, the CPU is the bottleneck.

 

[dejo]

Handbrake rips my movies very slowly. (about the time it takes to watch it!)

But you are not just ripping the movie using Handbrake, you are also re-encoding it! If you were to compare the time it takes to just rip the movie (using, say, MacTheRipper) vs. ripping-and-encoding, you would see where the bottleneck really is.

 

[motulist]

Are you running handbrake under windows or linux on that machine?