RE: Re: Spare server...

[Pedro de Oliveira <p.oliveira@xxxxxxx>]

Andy you are right: I used "rip" in my posts to mean "take a
DVD and make an
AVI out of it". What I should have said is "encode
it".  The actual ripping
(demacrovison and region freeing) should only take about 20mins if you
are
doing it to your local machine (I quote PIII 800 times).

Actually you can rip from DVD to DivX without all the faff but it does
mean
having your DVD-drive accessing the disk for all the time it takes to
rip+encode which would considerably drop the life of the DVD-drive.

Cheers
Pedro



-----Original Message-----
From: andy_powell_is [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 17 May 2002 15:42
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Spare server...

--- In ukha_d@y..., Pedro de Oliveira <p.oliveira@b...> wrote:
> Because of this thread I am in the process of ripping a DVD on a PC
with
> dual Xeon 2.2Ghz chips and 2Gb memory.  My normal approach to
ripping is to
> do it on my "other" PC which is a PIII 800 with 256Mb ram.
It 
usually takes
> around 10 - 12 hours to rip.  The Xeon machine will take 1hour 32
minutes.

Pedro,

You mean rip AND convert rather than just rip? If ripping alone takes 
that long then there is something wrong .. I can rip a 
demacrovisioned, deregioned DVD to a single file in under 15 
minutes.. (that's a single VOB) I don't go in for recompressed 
versions, I just want the accesability... i did try encoding once but 
gave up as the process seems to be a right old pain in the arse... 
unless of course you can rip to divx without poncing about with 
demuxing and remuxing.... 

Andy



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