DVD ripping: a tale of a struggling youth

[A.H.]

Hrm.... this worries me, because I was considering installing a firewire port on my computer for my DVD drive instead of using my 1:0:0 USB port (0.7x speed). Now the speed is also determined by the hard drive and the decrypter?

I remember seeing the quote from A&E's guide:

first thing to do is to choose a program. It doesn't really matter which one you choose as they all do the same thing which is copy the DVDs to your HD whilst removing the encryption. It's a common misconception that different ripping programs give better visual quality, they don't - they just either work or they don't work.

I kind of already had that idea about quality, but I guess that quote also made me believe that all ripping programs rip at the same speed as well.

Also not sure how my firmware update from HP is going to help.

[klinky]

I don't think it would be a good idea to use either firewire or usb for a DVD drive. Get an internal DVD drive that uses IDE. That will give you better performance overall.


If you must have an external drive, then firewire would be the way to go, or USB2 if you have it in your computer...