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

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Are you sure it only takes you 15 mins?

Unless you are recompressing your DVDs then 15 minutes isn't too far out -
with a decent DVD drive and an Athlon XP 2400 I would get through about
three discs an hour (ripping to a local drive).

> It takes me nearly 30mins per audio CD via EAC & LAME. I'd guess a
couple
> of hours per DVD for one at a time. I guess Phil has the best guide of
> "how long" since his hobby (apart from copying TB of data
across his
> network) is continually re-ripping his DVDs...
> ;-)

- what I tended to do was have a PC tucked away beside the sofa as well as
the HTPC-to-be and my laptop (which is a shedload slower at ripping) and
just swap discs in and out whilst sitting down with the missis - that way
you can get through 20 discs in just a couple of hours and - if you stick
with it - it doesn't take long to get through a goodly sized collection
(believe me - I know - I've ripped my collection of about 400 movies three
times now - once when I was using Windows as a server, once again when
Windows fubar'd the data on the drives and so I moved to Linux and then the
last time was when Linux began to fubar the data and I jumped ship to the
Mac).

> With 8 drives though, maybe you could set it up before you leave for
work
> then it would be finished by the time you get home, put another set in
> overnight, replace in the morning etc.

One thing that I wondered about was using one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/POWERFILE-C200-FIREWIRE-DVD-CD-CHANGER_W0QQitemZ87440341
25QQcategoryZ3754QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

as I believe there is support for them under Linux. Perhaps if you are of
the sandal-wearing persuasion you could get one of those doing the biz?
(They can be used under Windows or MacOS but the manufacturers charge a
bloody fortune for the software for Windows of Mac!)
Phil