How to Rip faster with DVD Decrypter?

[blaku92]

Yeah, so It may just be my DVD drives, but I feel like I should be able to rip DVDs a little quicker than 2,444 KB/s. Does anyone know how I can speed the ripping process? I have:

Pentium 4 3.00GHz
2.99 GHz, 1 GB RAM

Also, would my DVD+R/W drive rip faster than my plain DVD-ROM drive?

[Scintilla]

How fast are your hard drives? Also, what interface does your DVD drive use (IDE or SATA), is it master or slave if it's IDE, is it on the same channel as the target hard drive, etc.

Also, would my DVD+R/W drive rip faster than my plain DVD-ROM drive?

That depends on the read speeds of the individual drives.

[blaku92]

Im not really sure how fast my hard drive is. I had my first hard drive replaced about a year and a half ago and I'm not sure if it's the same type. Here's it's name according to device manager's properties:

WDC WD2500JS-75MHBO

I couldn't find Documentation on it anywhere.

I'm pretty sure that my DVD+RW drive is ATAPI (IDE) and it's max data transfer speed is 33.3MB/s

I couldn't find any docs on my DVD-ROM drive, but here's it's name:

HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B

Does that help any?

[Qyot27]

While I doubt this to be common by any length of the imagination, it could also be rooted in the DVD drive's firmware - although I think firmware issues are more aimed for ripping DVDs from a different region.

[Willen]

I couldn't find any docs on my DVD-ROM drive, but here's it's name:

HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B

Does that help any?

Here's the spec page for your DVD-ROM: LG Elec. GDR-8163B 16x DVD-ROM Drive

You should be able to get more than 2,444 KB/s read rate from that drive. My Sony DRU-720A 16x DVD+/-RW drive maxes out at 21,600 KB/s (16x), as should your DVD-ROM. The 16x max speed isn't achieved until the outer edges of the DVD (near the end of ripping a fully recorded DVD). My drive starts the ripping at around 8x speeds (1x = 1,350 KB/s).

Your DVD drive is probably running in PIO mode which is limiting it's maximum transfer speed. I've had it happen before when I tried to rip some really crappily-made bootlegged or badly scratched DVDs. Microsoft, in it's infinite wisdom, starts to throttle down your DVD drives performance when you start getting repeated read errors (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/st ... E-DMA.mspx). Unfortunately, their "solution" for re-enabling DMA doesn't work since the downgrade essentially becomes permanent from a Windows OS standpoint.

To (attempt to re-) enable DMA, or to check if DMA is enabled: http://www.cdrlabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7625

If the above fails, a link in the second post goes here: http://www.cdrlabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6645

[Zarxrax]

Most dvd drives today contain a "feature" called riplock, which limits your drive to 2x or 4x speed when ripping dvds. This is somehow supposed to discourage piracy. In order to bypass the riplock, you usually need to flash your drive with a modified firmware.

[blaku92]

Wow, Turns out my drives were in PIO mode instead of DMA. Thanks a bunch everyone! The ripping speed is much better now -- what used to take an hour now takes about 17 minutes. I really appreciate the help!