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dvd shrink question

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alanwest09872

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I use dvd shrink to make Legal copies of dvds that i own. I have a three 3 old that destroys them {on accident} while putting them into the dvd players and touching the bottom of them.

I have a liteon IDE 4x dvdrom drive. If i upgrade to a sata drive one thats 20x will overall will it be faster.

example. encoding/burning. Right now it takes about 15 mins to encode others that have older systems then mine say it takes them 5 mins.

I know that that everyone cant help me do anything illegal and thats not what im trying to do. i just want to make backups of dvds that i own. which is perfectly legal. lol i think
 
You should be OK with that process. I have a couple of grandkids that present the same type of hazard.

The real solution is putting your DVDs off limits - and let the rug rats play with their own designated copies.
 
Much faster? Probably not. I never see DVD burns as high as their rated speed. But, a little faster. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: alanwest09872
so if i upgrade it will be much faster then?
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its a little different when the speed barrier is your CPU rather than the DVD drive. All that encoding takes time.
 
I have Q6600 with LiteOn 20X SATA DVD burner that Shrink 3.2 encodes most copyprotected movies in about 10-20mins. ALL FOUR CORES are usually running about 75-90% with just the encoding process running. The encoding speed is about 10,000-12,000kbs according to Shrink. I have found some movies copy really fast (like 6mins) and others take as long as 25mins. Depends on the movie. For a test I just shrunk "Family Man". It took 12mins with Quality setting as 'Sharp'. Deep analysis was off. I will try Nero 6.0 Recode and see how fast that is. Have to use DVD43 to remove protection first. Well, Recode uses only one or two cores and only 17% workloaded! Regardless of those facts, it took the SAME 12mins to encode Family Man!

Depends on the movie more than hardware or software, I'd say.

I burn with 16X media at maximum speed, i.e. 16X using Nero 6.0. Never had a bad burn since I dumped my old 8X Plextor. My new LiteOn 20X and LG 18X both burn perfectly using expensive Taio Yuden or even cheap Ridata stuff. I used to slow my burns down when I had Plextor and still ended up with saucers. Not anymore. MAXIMUM burn speed for me.
 
Originally posted by: alanwest09872
so how can these lesser end cpus get such great performance and my oc q6600 get so little
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alan,

I've been using Shrink the same way you do for about 2 years, using from a lowly X2 3800+ system to a faster Intel E6600 and X2 6000+ and they all seem to take about 15 minutes to encode. You still have to burn after that (I use ImgBurn) and, depending on the speed you burn at, that adds another 15-20 minutes.

I have installed some SATA recorders, but haven't burned with them yet. But when I do, I'll still only burn at 8X because burning at max speeds (or very high speeds) will probably waste some platters with bad burns. Slower IS better when burning...

Just plan on 30-45 minutes to do the job and enjoy the time doing something else useful while the computer churns 🙂

Noel
 
Encoding and transcoding both take time - and really have nothing to do with burn speed. That is more of a CPU speed function along with memory.
 
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