The Dv8or
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| DVD ripping
What program do you use to rip DVDs? How long does it usually take? I remember someone telling me he was ripping DVDs in 45 minutes on his Pee Cee. Takes me 4 hours. Im just wondering if Im doing something wrong.
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Thinkdiff
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join:2001-08-07
Los Angeles, CA | ripping can mean two things...
to simply decrypt and copy, mactheripper...takes about 8 min
to compress, handbrake...anywhere from 1 to 4 hours on most computers |
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Sebehk
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December 26th, @10:53AM
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Using MacTheRipper, it takes me 15-30 minutes, depending on the DVD.
Using DVDRemaster, it takes me 15-20 minutes to compress.
Using Toast 7, it takes me 5-10 minutes to burn to DVD+R.
Using a PM G4/1.2GHz, 1 GB RAM, internal LaCie dual-layer DVD burner (an NEC mechanism).
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HotFries
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I also use MacTheRipper and it takes on average about 20 mins for me to rip a DVD.
Compressing it (using DVD2OneX) takes another 20 mins and burning it in Toast takes a couple of mins. So, about a 45 min process total, per DVD, to go from ripping, to compressing to burning the compressed movie on a DVD-R.
And it looks darn good too! I've played some of the movies I've burned at work and people often think it's the original.
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EvanWilliams
join:2005-12-09
Sacramento, CA | reply to The Dv8or
Rip with MacTheRipper (~30min), compress w/ DVD2OneX(~45min), burn with toast (~30min). I'm on a 12" Powerbook, 1Ghz G4 w/ 2x Superdrive.
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enckwanzer
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rip with MtR (~24min.)
compress dual-layer to single-layer with DVD2oneX2 or Popcorn (~30min.).
burn with Toast to DVD-R (~6min).
I'm on a 12" PB, 1.5GHz G4 w/ 1.25 GB RAM and an 8x Superdrive. |
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GoodyearMark
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Goodyear, AZ | reply to The Dv8or
Mac the Ripper: 3.5 hours of content is about 35 minutes flat on a PB 1.25 |
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DarnellP
join:2004-10-12
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Rip with MTR @ 30 min
Compress with DVD2oneX @ 20-30 min
Burn with Popcorn or Toast @ 10-14 min with 4x Superdrive
iMac G5 1.8 Ghz 2 gb ram |
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GoodyearMark
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Goodyear, AZ | reply to The Dv8or
Toast can compress, you could save a step not using DVD2oneX. |
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Thinkdiff
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Los Angeles, CA | i have found toast's compression much worse than dvd2one's |
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gabeman
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Seeing as how you're saying it takes you 4 hours, I assume you're talking about turning a DVD into a video file of some kind.
It takes me about 1.5hrs to convert a DVD to a DIVX file using HandBrake on my 2x2GHz G5. Beware that it will take you different amounts of time depending on codec. For example, h.264 takes forever.
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The Dv8or
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| Yeah, I was ripping to a file. Basically what I want to do is take movies with me without carrying discs.
Standard video was taking about 4 hours for a 2 hour movie. h.264 video would take 30 hours to rip. Im doing this on a PBG4 17 incher 1.5Ghz with a gig o ram.
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sporkme
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| said by The Dv8or  :Yeah, I was ripping to a file. Basically what I want to do is take movies with me without carrying discs. It's pretty handy... You probably don't need to recompress unless you're really short on drive space. I did something similar, pulled a bunch of films from the tivo and put them on the laptop. Files were smaller than DVD, but still pretty huge, and are MPEG-2. Very handy. Plugged to old ibook into the TV to watch some stuff, watched movies on the plane trip there and back. I'd say that watching MPEG-2 on this old thing (with a new battery) would give me about 3 1/2 hours. Not sure if compressing more would alter battery life or not... I played with a few different types of compression and then settled on the raw files - anything that looked good took way to long to encode on the dual 1.8 and the old clunker ibook had trouble not dropping too many frames.
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DarnellP
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said by Thinkdiff :i have found toast's compression much worse than dvd2one's Yeah, sometimes you can notice artifacts during playback with Toast's compression. IMHO compressing with DVD2oneX reduces this. |
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jtk7
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Wheaton, IL | reply to The Dv8or
There's also NTI DragonFlix for compression (same company that makes DragonBurn), but based on my experiences with Dragonburn, I can't even come close to recommending more software from NTI. |
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The Dv8or
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| said by jtk7 :There's also NTI DragonFlix for compression (same company that makes DragonBurn), but based on my experiences with Dragonburn, I can't even come close to recommending more software from NTI. This would explain why we got them for free to give away for the FLC.
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godmachine12
join:2004-04-06
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said by GoodyearMark :Toast can compress, you could save a step not using DVD2oneX. I have problems using Toast to compress sometimes. Every now and then it will display an error when a drag a VIDEO_TS foler into it and say "the contents cannot be compressed", but I'll compress it with DVD2ONE and all is well. I like both just fine, but prefer using Toast since it's an all-in-one solution. |
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GoodyearMark
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| said by godmachine12 :Every now and then it will display an error when a drag a VIDEO_TS foler into it and say "the contents cannot be compressed. The only way I've found around that issue is to burn it as DVD-Video instead of DVD-Video from Video_TS in Toast. You will of course lose the menus, but Toast has iDVD like menu screens to put your choices onto.
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The Dv8or
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How do I turn the VIDEO_TS into an AVI or MPEG or something like that?
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rjackson
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clubs: | Handbrake is best for ripping a DVD straight to MPEG-4 or DivX AVI. Their website is down right now but you can still download it: »handbrake.m0k.org/ |
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