Which DVD-ROM rips faster???

[teddy2000]

Let’s speak about ripping speed.
I have a DVD-R Sony dru-500a unfortunately it is very slow when ripping(2x). I try to find out what DVD-ROM rips real fast (pioneer, Toshiba e.t.c.) in order to use Sony dru-500a only to record. If you guys could give me a good piece of advise?
Thanks.


;)

[RB]

LiteOn drives are pretty fast. The Toshiba's have an arbitrary limitation in the firmware, allowing ripping of CSS encrypted discs at 2x max.

[SOD]

My sony burner has the same problem. It rips only at 2x

[VinnySem]

My Sony DVD-ROM consistently rips at high speeds, like 8X and up. Usually it starts out at 2X on the inner part of the disk, then speed increases as ripping progresses to the outer portions of the disk. I typically get speeds around 10X on the outer portion of full DVDs. Personally I have never come across a disk that limited rip speed to 2X.

[muralin]

i just bought a Pacific Digital 16x DVD-ROM. DVDDecrypter 3.1.5.0 log says that it is 2x and it rips at 2x. any thoughts on how I can speed it up. running XP Pro on a 1,5GHz machine. thx.

[Sp33d]

One thing to always check is that DMA is enabled for the drive. Just be careful because some Pioneer DVD-R drives will create coasters if DMA is set on it. I only use DMA on my CD-R and DVD-ROM drives.

[thop]

the nec 1100a starts at ~2.5x and speeds up up to ~5x.

[kaitsuburi]

Pioneer 117 starts off around 4-5x but I've seen it hit 14x by the end. Great speed, DMA is enabled of course. For some reason in W2k by default it's on PIO, in XP it's on "DMA if available". Patched firmware, region free, noise is fine, I love it :D

[windtrader]

The 2x limit on the Pioneer 105 drives is removed.


http://forum.dvddecrypter.com/index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=641&

[Laz]

my 16x Liteon DVD-ROM rips at around 5x...

anything i can do to improve this??!?
thanks

[kaitsuburi]

Originally posted by Laz
my 16x Liteon DVD-ROM rips at around 5x...

anything i can do to improve this??!?
thanks

It tends to depend on the DVD. 5x is not uncommon. Some DVDs just won't rip faster than 5-6x in my experience.

-kaitsuburi

[thinge]

My Aopen 16X DVD Rom drive won't allow me to rip faster than 2X.
Is there a way i can tell what Aopen dvd Rom drive it is so i can at least look for firmware updates.

DMA is on
My Pioneer 105 can be updated to rip faster but i really don't want to use it for ripping as i don't want it to break and get worn and only write at 1X.

Any help would be most aprichated

[jarthel]

I love my Pioneer DVD116. I not sure about the speed but it's 8 to 10x max. Also it has UDMA66 which I think is the only brand that has them. I'm not sure about other Pioneer though.

[MasterYoshidino]

Pacific Digital firmwared with region free Liteon bios should be able to start with 4x ripping and max out at 8x.
Depends on how fast your hard drives work though.

I get around 8x to 10x peak with the Pacific Digital but I think my ATA100 HDD is the limiter though.

Oh yeah they are ATA33 so make sure you have UDMA enabled, as they are reliable at that specification.

[JonRead]

Just for info means, my Toshiba rips at about 3x to 5x (getting faster as it goes along, but starting at 2x). My drive is : SD-M1612

Is there any firmware for this drive or Pioneer A04 to remove speed limits ?

Also why should Toshiba or such like care about the speed people rip from CSS movies ? I could understand Sony or those involved with producing movie DVDs, but Toshiba ? Pioneer ? Doesn't make much sense to me. Same as them making them all region protected (after 5 times), another strange idea.

[int 21h]

I have a Samsung SD-616 16x. Rips constantly around 8x, peaks at about 12x. Patched to regionfree from rpc1.com.

[thinge]

I swapped my Aopen drive with an Acer DVD drive not sure what it is but it starts at about 4-5 then speeds up to 6 - 11. 11.9 is the max i've got out of it. I was always ripping at 2X taking the minium of 30 mins to rip. The one that ended up ripping of a map of 11.9 ripped in 3 mins. How go is that and how did i put up with it for so long.

[BloodyRipper]

yeah, well...i've got HL-DT-ST(LG) DVD-ROM GDR-8161B and it decrypts all dvds(css encrypted too) at approx. 7x, but maximum speed of it is 16x. also, it works on PIO-4, because i've got an old cd-writer on secondary channel which works on PIO-4. the normal mode for dvdrom is DMA/33, but when slower and faster devices are on the same channel, they work as the speed of the slower one. goodbye. good night

[Blankman]

I've got an LG DRD-8160BI connected to an Adaptec SCSI 29160 through an ACARD adapter. I've been pleased with the performance (~14x). I suppose similar speed may be achieved by connecting it directly to an ATA/UDMA controller, at the sacrifice of increasing the load on both CPU and bus.

[RB]

Originally posted by JonRead
Just for info means, my Toshiba rips at about 3x to 5x (getting faster as it goes along, but starting at 2x). My drive is : SD-M1612

Is there any firmware for this drive or Pioneer A04 to remove speed limits ?
Yes, look here: http://hijacker.rpc1.org/toshiba_nolimit/

I'm using the patched firmware on my SD-M1612 and it works great. Now hits about 10x at the layer break on a CSS encrypted DVD-9, starts out at about 4.5x.

[DnGermany]

Depending on the disk my Liteon ltd-163 rips at around 7x - 10x, sometimes slower just depends.

[DMagic1]

I have a Hitachi GD-7500 8x DVD-rom. I have always been running XP. Even after updating to SP1 my drive has always ripped at 2.2x at the most. I just reinstalled XP with SP1 and all of a sudden it rips at 4x to 7.5x now. I don't understand why. I'm happy but dont know why the speed increased. No firmware has been updated and I have done a clean install of XP before and not got these results.