CZroe
8th October 2007, 23:22
When visiting my sister thousands of miles away, I loaded her up with a few utilities and showed her how to make backups of her DVD movies. I noticed that her drive was burning at up to 4x and averaging over "three point something ex" despite several utilities reporting that the drive was only capable of burning at 3x (something with Nero and also the included Power 2 Go). Strange. I then realized that it always did this in DVD Decrypter, even when I set the burn speed to 1x. Could that be because the drive speed is artificially limited and that DVD Decrypter is unaware of it due to age? I never got to try IMGburn to see if it too burned too fast and ignored settings.
I don't know the drive model because I have already returned from my visit, but I'm still hoping to get the answer to a couple questions. In case the drive model is needed, it was the one included with the popular dual-core $600 Gateway laptop that was sold everywhere for the Vista launch earlier this year, so it's a value drive but it's also a pretty modern system (100GB HDD, 1GB DDR2 upgraded to 2GB, dual-core CPU, DX9 ATI 200M for Aero Glass, etc).
If my suspicions are correct, it would be complicated to guide her on how to use different applications independantly. RipIt4Me uses DVD Decrypter to rip the movie, but that is a seperate step and program instantiation, so why not use the more modern counterpart, IMG burn, to burn it? If it is simply to lower the program's required companion programs, there is still plenty enough reason to have it as an optional feature. RipIt4Me's whole purpose before its own demise earlier this year was to make an outdated ripping utility continue to be useful, so why use the outdated burn engine exclusively when that is still updated and around in the form of IMG burn? It's like you are damned it you do, damned if you don't.
Edit: Oops. I forgot that it was really DVD Shrink that launched DVD Decrypter. So, is there any way to get DVD Shrink to automatically launch IMG burn instead? If I do some fancy directory name swapping and executable renaming, can I get RipIt4Me to see DVD Decrypter in a different diretory and trick DVD Shrink to burn with IMG burn? I guess IMG burn would have to respond *exactly* like DVD Decrypter. Does it?
I don't know the drive model because I have already returned from my visit, but I'm still hoping to get the answer to a couple questions. In case the drive model is needed, it was the one included with the popular dual-core $600 Gateway laptop that was sold everywhere for the Vista launch earlier this year, so it's a value drive but it's also a pretty modern system (100GB HDD, 1GB DDR2 upgraded to 2GB, dual-core CPU, DX9 ATI 200M for Aero Glass, etc).
If my suspicions are correct, it would be complicated to guide her on how to use different applications independantly. RipIt4Me uses DVD Decrypter to rip the movie, but that is a seperate step and program instantiation, so why not use the more modern counterpart, IMG burn, to burn it? If it is simply to lower the program's required companion programs, there is still plenty enough reason to have it as an optional feature. RipIt4Me's whole purpose before its own demise earlier this year was to make an outdated ripping utility continue to be useful, so why use the outdated burn engine exclusively when that is still updated and around in the form of IMG burn? It's like you are damned it you do, damned if you don't.
Edit: Oops. I forgot that it was really DVD Shrink that launched DVD Decrypter. So, is there any way to get DVD Shrink to automatically launch IMG burn instead? If I do some fancy directory name swapping and executable renaming, can I get RipIt4Me to see DVD Decrypter in a different diretory and trick DVD Shrink to burn with IMG burn? I guess IMG burn would have to respond *exactly* like DVD Decrypter. Does it?