When can I eject original disc?

[windtrader]

It seems DVD-RB keeps reading the original disc through the encode step. Doing this causes the drive to run quite a bit more than a quick full speed rip to HD and also delays the disc from being removed.

Is there an option to have RB first do a fast rip then process using these ripped HD files? I'd like to go straight into RB with the original but since I want to get the disc freed up quickly I have to use a 3rd party tool up front to get the data off the disc as fast as possible.

thx

[bonehead66]

Yes you need to use other software try using DVDDecrypter with RipIt4Me to rip to your HD first. Both apps are free Google is your friend.

What are you using at the moment to remove the encryption?

[Trahald]

he is probably doing the anydvd thing like i do. it works for everything but structure protected disks.

i believe dvdrb is staying out of the ripping business. (for obvious reasons) so you will have to resort to third party ripping solutions.

[jdobbs]

With AnyDVD all you have to do is drag-and-drop the VIDEO_TS folder onto your hard drive, then point to it from DVD-RB. It's best if you put it in a folder that is named the same as the Volume ID (so DVD-RB will see it and recognize it automatically). I personally use DVD Decrypter over AnyDVD to create an ISO from the disc. I then mount the ISO when I need it using Daemon Tools. It's really convenient when you want to do 3-4 discs overnight in batch mode.

[ilovejedd]

Same as bonehead66, I suggest using RipIt4me to decrypt to your hard drive. I usually rip 6 discs at a time (one season of a TV series) and leave them processing with DVD-RB overnight (and most of the day - I have a really slow system). Only problem is, you're limited by the size of your HDD.

[windtrader]

Thanks. What I gather is RB does not have the capability to make a work copy on the fly. I understand why you propose copying the entire VIDEO_TS folder contents or making a ISO image as this preserves the original content and ensure RB is working on a "production" unmangled set of IFO and VOBs.

But it is not unusual for extra content to occupy more space than the main title so there is a lot of extra data being copied that gets thrown way when I do movie only backups.

Copying the full content takes more time but only several more minutes up front, barely noticable if the title gets encoded. It is a wasted step if the title fits on a single DVD, though.

New process then: Start AnyDVD, Start CloneDVD2 to determine if the movie components I want fit on a single DVD with no or very slight compression. If so, go ahead and finish building the DVD using CloneDVD. If not, quit CloneDVD and copy VIDEO_TS folder and fire up RB to process and compress the main title.

The new process (for titles needing RB) takes longer than my current process as I currently use CloneDVD2 to create the main title work copy that gets fed into RB. This saves copying unnecessary parts of the original DVD as well avoiding the manual step to copy from DVD to HD.

It's a tough call on my end. I can save time and effort always going via CloneDVD but risk RB having trouble if the IFOs are not accurate. Since I rarely have issues with CloneDVD output feeding RB, I am leaning toward keeping my current process but need to ponder it some more.

Thanks again for the great support and super tool.

edit - Since I don't batch up encodes I need to look into this and see how much better life can be as it seems that is the main theme here for making the full rips then running them as batches through RB.
thx again

edit 2- I gave the batch function a try and it is pretty slick and intuitive. I plan to use it more and I can see how the ripping procedure you suggest earlier make sense particularly when encoding several movies at a time.