Would I need a faster CPU to burn DVDs?

[Denis54]

I am a newbie. I own a P3 1 Ghz with 512 MB RAM and a 120 GB HD. I use XP Pro. I want to buy a NEC 2500 DVD writer.

A friend is telling me that my CPU is not fast enough and that ripping will take forever. He says it could take up to 2 hours to rip a DVD.

How long do you think I should need to rip a DVD?

How long do you think I should need to write a DVD?

 

[Rob423]

from my knowledge its the DRIVE and DISCS that are what factor's our your TIME ........ so that system will run fine...... just get a good DVDRW


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[Toejam31]

Your friend is only partially correct.

I've been using my 1.2GHz Duron system with 512MB of RAM and WinXP Pro to rip and burn DVD's. For a typical 90 minute movie, and I can rip <i>and</i> burn a DVD in about 45 minutes on average, and that's with a 4X burner, not the NEC burner you are talking about, which burns -/+R media at 8x (or 11,040 Kbyte/s). That includes removing extraneous menus, audio tracks, and subtitles, so the compression ratio of the main movie is as low as possible.

Of course, some of this depends on the software that you use to copy the DVD. The above statistics come from using a combination of an AnyDVD driver and Elby's CloneDVD. If I want a really high quality copy, with the least amount of compression, then the process takes a little longer. For example, if I rip with DVD Decrypter, compress and encode with DVDShrink, and burn with Nero, I could be looking at slightly over an hour for the same disk. If I allow DVDShrink to do a deep analysis of each frame before encoding, the whole process, from rip to burn, <i>could</i> be as much as 40 minutes longer.

Some of this is due to the processor speed, but much of it depends entirely on how you intend to use the software, and what that software might be.

However, although your processor is 200MHz slower than mine, I still can't see any reason, regardless of the software used, for simply ripping a DVD to take two hours. Your system is just not <i>that</i> slow.

Toey

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[timberwolf1]

He's quite right. The process of ripping a DVD involves copying the file to the hard disk as a raw AVI file. This certainly takes up CPU cycles. Upgrading your CPU will speed things up.


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[4Ryan6]

Ripping a DVD is really not going to be that much of time difference, in comparison to converting the ripped file to say a DivX compressed format, or such as that.

Converting the file is the real time consumer, and once the file is converted the burning really relies on the speed of the DVD burner, and the burn rate of the burning DVD- or +R media you've chosen.

Toey is dead on the money about the software, the absolutely fastest software I've used yet is the DVDxCopy Express, but it doesn't suit my needs because the compression is fixed and can't be adjusted, but it is the fastest rip and burn to disk I've seen yet.

Don't let the speed of your computer, hold you back from getting a DVD burner, your system will work just fine with it.

I reccomend DVD-R burning media it has worked in everyone of my friends and familys component DVD Players that I've tried it in, where as, DVD+R would not work in some of them.

I also reccommend getting a burner that covers all the formats, in case you run into a situation you need to burn in a different format.



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