does it take you forever to rip a dvd?

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

the amount of time will also be impacted by the settings you are using and how much compression

 

[starvingf150 10+ year member]

Well like i said before, I am not proclaiming that I know much about anything when it comes to hardware. What I do know is that I need to rip these dvds I have.

So kindly if you would please suggest what I should do.

Should I stick with AMD or Pentium or what?

What amount of power do I need for processing?

How much RAM?

I really don't have all that much money.

Thanks though guys,

Ben

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

well i have sent the company an email so we will see what they have to say. It may be my pc.
I have a: AMD K6 3D processor 334 MHz

160 MB of RAM

I don't really know if that is good or bad for the processor. I don't know anything about AMD. I do know I need alot more RAM though. I want to get at least a gig.

Ben

That PC is obsolete in relation to the industry. That was good in 98 but hella slow now.

Get a dell deal o the day and add your own DVD burner to it.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Buying a dell is probably the best bet if you are on a limited budget.

Keep an eye out for coupon codes.. check like fatwallet.com and other hot deal forums.. you can get some great deals if you pay attention and buy at the right time.

 

[tEh koRnDog 5,000+ posts]

Buying a dell is probably the best bet if you are on a limited budget.
Keep an eye out for coupon codes.. check like fatwallet.com and other hot deal forums.. you can get some great deals if you pay attention and buy at the right time.

x2

avoid HP, their customer service sucks

 

[JohnnyChuttz 10+ year member]

I have a: AMD K6 3D processor 334 MHz

160 MB of RAM

Ben

How do you even look at this forum? I hope you have sigs/avas/pics turned off.

 

[JohnnyChuttz 10+ year member]

Well like i said before, I am not proclaiming that I know much about anything when it comes to hardware. What I do know is that I need to rip these dvds I have.
So kindly if you would please suggest what I should do.

Should I stick with AMD or Pentium or what?

What amount of power do I need for processing?

How much RAM?

I really don't have all that much money.

Thanks though guys,

Ben

Go to a pawn shop. Black people like to buy computers, but computers confuse them and they become frustrated. The computer sits there for a few months and they end up needing money. So they take them to the only place that buys stuff.

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[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

Its 100% your computer.

I won't disagree and that dell wouldn't be a bad choice (http://www.dell.com/tv) but I'm starting to dislike the quality and the customer service is just as bad as HP (all in India).

If you know anyone that builds PC's (friend, etc) goto http://www.pricewatch.com and look for parts or http://www.newegg.com.

You seem to be on a tight budget so maybe even that is out of your budget, let me suggest an older system from ebay as well. If I had to guess, I would say your system is worth about 15 dollars on ebay, I know that sounds crazy but its true. You can get a newer system (perhaps 1.5ghz or so with 512 ram) for VERY cheap. If you can find a system using pc100 or pc133 I have a bunch o sticks lying around that I would send ya for free. I may even have a few DDR sticks (only like 128 or 256).

In reality though, your system is obsolete. My palm pilot runs at 624 mhz and has almost as much ram as your computer, not bragging just trying to make a comparision.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ACER-VT7200-P4-1-7GHZ-512-20GB-CD-FLOPPY_W0QQitemZ260097088525QQcategoryZ140067QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

That one is about 110 dollars shipped. No OS (windows) though.

http://www.pricewatch.com/computers/pentium_4_1.5ghz.htm

188 shipped for that, but its pre-loaded with windows.

I'll be doing spring cleaning here in about 3 weeks so feel free to send me a PM, I may have something laying around. SOOOOOO many darn computers

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

Well like i said before, I am not proclaiming that I know much about anything when it comes to hardware. What I do know is that I need to rip these dvds I have.
So kindly if you would please suggest what I should do.

Should I stick with AMD or Pentium or what?

What amount of power do I need for processing?

How much RAM?

I really don't have all that much money.

Thanks though guys,

Ben

I use AMD myself but I have nothing against Intel. You seem to have 0 knowledge of pcs so I would say a good general pc for you would be.

Pentium4 (intel) or Athlon XP (AMD) go for at least 1.2ghz (but i would suggest 1.5 or higher 1.8 would be a good place for ya)

Ram is important. AT LEAST 256 (your going to hear all kinds of numbers on this) 512 for YOU is most likely going to be ok. Its not uncommon to run 2 gb's now a days though but I dont see you doing anything that needs that.

Hard drives are cheap, get whatever comes with a built pc and then add on later. 20gb's would most likely do for now (seems that 40-60gb range is cheapest though). If your going to rip the dvd's to your pc you should look into a MUCH larger drive.

If you can part it together, your talking the cheapest route.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

If you do alot of dvd/video encoding and have enough to spend go with an Intel Core2Duo cpu. I can encode and compress a dvd in about 45 minutes using DVD Rebuilder/CCE 2 pass and then use DVD Decrypter to burn the file in about 7 more minutes.

This is what I would do with that pc:

1. Get DVD Shrink to rip

2. Get Slysoft AnyDVD to circumvent encryption

3. Get VLC player

4. Get Daemon tools

5. Install them all

6. Use DVD Shrink to rip the movie off the disc into .ISO fornat with no compression

7. Mount the .ISO in Daemon

8. Play the .ISO in VLC player

It is the compression that is taking forever, it you dont compress and reencode the movie it will only take 15-20 minutes tops.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

Also if you are going to want more than a couple movies on your drive you are gonna need alot of space.

I rip out everything except for the movie and the 5.1 audio(who needs previews and menus anyway). I keep the file about 3.5-4gb each so 100 movies is gonna take up about 400gb's

I have 4 400gb drives, a 320gb and a 74gb Raptor right now and it still isnt enough space, they are all full

PS...I will have a 2.4ghz P4 system with 40gb and 320gb drives and 512mb ram for sale later this week

 

[starvingf150 10+ year member]

I priced out a dual core 2.4 with 1 GB of PC 5300 a Seagate 500GB HDD for about 600$..

All of pricewatch and computergeeks.com

I am just going to have to save up for it. I rather just do it right the first time and sacrafice for right now.

If anyone knows if I can find this type of setup with same or better performance let a brother now.

Thanks,

Ben

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

$600 for just those components or a full pc?

I can get you these for about $450

2.4ghz AMD x2 4600+

2gb PC5400 ddr2-667

400gb Seagate hard drive

100gb less space, but also 1gb more ram

 

[Team Hammer 10+ year member]

I priced out a dual core 2.4 with 1 GB of PC 5300 a Seagate 500GB HDD for about 600$..
All of pricewatch and computergeeks.com

I am just going to have to save up for it. I rather just do it right the first time and sacrafice for right now.

If anyone knows if I can find this type of setup with same or better performance let a brother now.

Thanks,

Ben

I got a Abit Mother Board IT-7 Max 2/Intel 2.4 CPU/ATI Video Card/WD Hard Drive 60gig/and 1 gig or ram/Antec Case/ NIC Card/ all you need is a Power supply. All retail boxed stuff and I can let go cheap for around $250.00 + SH I'll send it all in there retail boxes.

Just let me know if you want it. I ran it as a server for a year. Never had a problem.

 

[Red Rocket 10+ year member]

I think I use DVD-shrink. Takes about 12-15 minutes usually to rip to a 4.5gb file. I don't burn them though. Just keep 'em on the computer and watch them through the tv. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

I always wondered how I could do that. Mind sharing?