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    ripping dvds takes for ever.

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Niku-Sama, Apr 3, 2009.

  1. Niku-Sama

    Niku-Sama Notebook Enthusiast

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    i'm goin on a trip and i wanted to rip some dvd's to the hard drive so i dont have to haul a bunch of dvd's and possibly break them.

    any way i used DVD fab and it took for ever and it should be a bit faster its a 16x read drive so i donno whats going on, this is plugged in and everything.

    mabe its the software, does any one know if a good quality free fast ripper?
     
    Niku-Sama, Apr 3, 2009
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    xenon2k9 Notebook Evangelist

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    Try:
    a) Format Factory
    b) Handbrake

    Format Factory is excellent but I've also heard great things about handbrake.
     
    xenon2k9, Apr 3, 2009
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  3. Niku-Sama

    Niku-Sama Notebook Enthusiast

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    cool, i'll check em out
    forgot to say its on a DV4 1028
     
    Niku-Sama, Apr 3, 2009
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    AppleUsr Notebook Deity

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    it should take about an hour to encode a dvd. if you have the extra space, just make an dvd iso image instead. its larger but it takes 10 minutes, same exact quality as dvd. then you just mount it and the system will think you inserted the dvd into the dvd drive. then when you return from the trip just delete em. would take 50 minutes instead of 5 and a half hours to do 5 cds.

    you can use 2 free programs to do this. imgburn to make the disk image and virtualclonedrive to mount it.
     
    AppleUsr, Apr 5, 2009
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    Please define forever. 1 hour? 4 hours?

    What are your computer specs? This probably has more to do with your speed than what application you are using.
     
    Rustican, Apr 5, 2009
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