Which DVD drive rips the best?

[bupkus]

One that's currently available. My LiteOn LDW-811S seems to work much better than my brother's Sony DRU-530A.

As far as future proofing I haven't even considered HD drives because of the prices and available titles.

 

[Sforsyth]

I find my Pineer rips faster then my LG and my moms has a Sony and it seems slow but her computers abit slower to maybe that why.

 

[Pens1566]

Lite-on drives are typically great at ripping. They're excellent readers. Look at cdfreaks.com for more thorough reviews.

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: bupkus
One that's currently available. My LiteOn LDW-811S seems to work much better than my brother's Sony DRU-530A.

As far as future proofing I haven't even considered HD drives because of the prices and available titles.

Plextor is the Best... 8MB CACHE 8GB rips in about 7-10 min......They are 2-3 times what most of the others Cost.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131351

 

[bupkus]

Who cares about speed. I just want to rip without artificacts.

 

[Slugbait]

Originally posted by: bupkus
Who cares about speed. I just want to rip without artificacts.

I've had quite a bit of rips, so I personally care a great deal about speed. However, sometimes the discs don't like to co-operate and I see speeds of 2x or lower some times with my NEC 3500A. But my Plextor 708A always seems to rip quickly.

Haven't heard of any drives that produce artifacts when ripping, tho'. I've always been under the impression that artifacting is caused by the user after the rip has finished, and the user doesn't encode properly or tries to compress at too high of a bitrate. For example, if DVDShrink indicates 56% compression to fit on a single layer, you get artifacting. If it indicates 90% or higher, no artifacting.

 

[bupkus]

My brother was trying to rip a DVD he had with the title The xxxxxxxx. It kept hanging using DVD Decrypter so he downloaded DVDFab Decrypter when ran to completion. Success? Not entirely. Post burn playing using PowerDVD revealed flaws which I can only describe as artifacts, but clearly the image suddenly degraded into boxes and swirls, but just as quickly corrected itself. Three of these flawed spots were rather early in the movie. I then directed PowerDVD to play the ripped files on the hard drive instead and discovered those same errors at the same moments in the movie. This, to me, meant the error was in the rip, and not the burn. Using my computer and DVD-RW drive I got far superior results in both the hard drive files and subsequent burned DVD.
Now, my pc is dual core with 8X the memory, but my LiteOn drive seems better than his Sony, and that seems to me the difference.

 

[Slugbait]

Without going into detail, for some discs, try this instead.

 

[0roo0roo]

well either way u need something like anydvd these days.

 

[DasFox]

bupkus I've been using for the past few years the Sony dual layer burners and they have been great, never a problem.

My GameRig is using a Sony DRU-810A:
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSH..._PCAccessories_CD%2fDVDBurn_DVDBurners

My WorkRig is using a Sony DRU-720A
http://www.a2zcomp.com/buy.asp?REF=26&SKU=F40625IO

Personally for me, they've been great, and I rip stuff all the time, and I wouldn't hesitate once to get the DRU-830A for $69
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSH..._PCAccessories_CD%2fDVDBurn_DVDBurners

ALOHA