Looking For The Best DVDrom for Ripping

[peterdragon20]

What's you guys opinion on the best DVDrom to rip DVD's for SVCD?
I have a no-name 16x's made in China, but it's way slow.
Any feed-back would greatly be appreciated.

TIA
PeterDragon

[Suzahara]

Um, a dvdrom is a dvdrom... There is no best to rip a dvd. Are you sure it's in DMA mode, not PIO mode? This will make a huge difference on speed.

[Zhnujm]

some drives are looked to a slow speed with css encrypted dvds.
look here for a table of ripping speeds for some drives:
http://cdbremse.gmxhome.de/drives.htm

[slipdisc]

I've got a Pioneer A05 DVD ROM drive and its excellent for ripping movies. Takes about 4-8 mins for a full rip of a movie. Even quicker sometimes!

I bought the higher A06 model a while back which has UDMA-66 support but found it still played second fiddle to the AO5, so i stuck with the A05.


They dont make the A05 anymore, but they do make the A06 (106 OEM model). Still a very good drive!

[camaj]

Originally posted by Zhnujm
some drives are looked to a slow speed with css encrypted dvds.
look here for a table of ripping speeds for some drives:
http://cdbremse.gmxhome.de/drives.htm

This is the sort of thing I'm looking for but that table only mentions quoted speed not css ripping speed which we're more interested in.

[Zhnujm]

if its limited you should see something like that:

5x/CAV 8x/CAV 12x/CAV 16x/CAV
CSS: 5x/CAV

look at the faster toshiba drives for example.