RE: [OT] DVD ripping using multiplke firewire drives ?

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for clarifying Simon.

I had hoped to start ripping DVDs over the holidays but ran out of time.
It's an interesting comment re: EAC & LAME. I've found that the LAME
part doesn't take too long per track - maybe 30seconds at most while the
reading of the track from the CD seems to take ages. I don't think I
have an "EAC-recommended" drive though, and all my ripping has
been done
on a 1.6Ghz P4-M laptop.

I suppose it's fair to say that the audio quality ripped from the DVD
with DVD Decrypter is lower than that from EAC/LAME ??
Whether you notice, of course, is another question.

Thanks,

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon McCaughey
>
> On 05/01/06, Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)
> <haweste@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Are you sure it only takes you 15 mins?
> > It takes me nearly 30mins per audio CD via EAC & LAME.
>
> Ripping DVDs and CDs is very different. DVDs are a lot easer,
> you use EAC on CDs to ensure you get good data from the disk,
> it reads multiple times, and lame takes CPU time to encode the mp3.
>
> DVD on the other hand is more-or-less a straight data copy
> from the disk, error correction etc largely handled by the hardware.
>
> My PIII 800 machine in the kitchen takes about 11 minutes to
> rip a DVD to my NAS over a 100m ethernet connection
>
> Simon