Help me pick a DVD Drive please

[MikroMak]

I'm in the market for a dvd drive and I'm not quite sure which one. I was lookin at the Toshiba 12x but I'm not sure. I've heard that its a very slow ripper howerver. One of the primary reason I need a fast ripper to do dvd2vcd rips. I heard something about it only ripping at 2x? Whats another good solution in that price range?

 

[Dundain]

I'd say its either between Toshiba's or Pioneer. But why only get a 12x? 16x shouldnt be much if anything more expensive and might rip faster.

 

[MikroMak]

Pioneers a little pricy... but I've heard some funny stuff about Toshiba ripping. I heard that the 12x actually rips faster than the 16x (2x rip - factory cripple??) I don't know, everything I hear is from this forum but it all seems to be hearsay , no hard evidence. Ideas?

 

[Silver_VR6]

MikroMak

for the definitive source of DAE with DVD drives,

Top 200 drives for digital audio extraction

Francois

 

[danii8]

Silver_VR6
very good link., I was looking for this before.

 

[RichieZ]

The toshiba 16x is the one that only gets 2x, I have the 12X and after enabling UDMA I get up to 9X when ripping DVD's

 

[MikroMak]

Thanks for the link. but Maybe I'm misunderstanding something (haven't had a chance to look at the link). DAE is used to do like CDAudio-MP3 ripping no? I need to actually rip the movie, sound and video. Now I'm talking mostly in theory and I don't actually know the steps. is DAE is the speed to go by please let me know.

 

[Cpt. Duke]

MikroMak -- are you looking to convert the DVD to DiVX? If so the DAE extraction speed is not what you are looking for. I'm not sure where to find ratings for what you are looking to do, but the speed of the operation will be closely related to the drive's speed rating. Thus if you are using a 12x drive it should be somewhere near to that...

 

[MikroMak]

Umm I guess the codec could be DiVX... It just needs to be burnable as the standard VCD format because I have a set top player capable of playing VCDs.

 

[rw120555]

You can get DVD benchmarks, user comments, and other info at CdSpeed2000.

 

[Cpt. Duke]

If you are looking to make Video CDs then you will need to convert it to MPEG-1...