[mythtv-users] ripping speed

[Michael Lynch]

On 6/12/06, Allan Wilson <allanwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/11/06, Marco Nelissen <marcone at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > What DVD ripping speed should I be expecting from a USB 2.0 DVD drive? The
> box
> > that the DVD drive came in lists read-speeds of 10, 16 and 21 MB/sec
> depending
> > on the medium, but it takes about 25 minutes to rip an 8GB disk, which
> translates
> > to about 5 MB/sec. Is that about normal real-world performance, or is
> there
> > something I could tweak to make it go faster?
> >
> >
> >
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>  Not sure if this answers your question but I have an internal DVD burner
> that I use to read DVDs with. It's a P4 3 GHZ system. It takes about 18 mins
> to rip a 2 hour movie. Just to give you a guide as to what happens on my
> end.
>
> Allan
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P3 600MHz, 256MB RAM took about the same amount of time to rip an 83
minute movie.