I just backed up my first DVD yesterday with DVDshrink.
I actually made several rips, just seeing what my machine would do. It's new and I'm still tweaking it to my liking.
Anyway, I found DVDShrink to be very easy to use, and worked quite well. The DVDr even played in my old Sony standalone, which won't even play CDRs. I think that has something to do with region encoding, but not sure.
Anyway, the first rip I did took about an hour, and ripped @ 3668 KB/s...or at least that's what it settled at.
The last one I did took about 15 minutes and was upwards of 6000+ KB/s.
I'm wondering what I should be benchmarking against. What do others rip at?
hey sublimit, ripping speeds like everything else in this business vary. I've done it anywhere from 6 to 30 min. My average in shrink is about 10 to 15 minutes. There is a great little freeware called dvdinfopro that can give you all kinds of useful information about your drive(ripping speeds), your media, etc. The free version's ads are not at all annoying like so many other freewares.
My Lite-On 166 rips single layer disks at an average of around 6x (16x peak) and single layer discs average around 9x (16x peak). My burner, on the other hand, only rips at 2x no matter whether it's a dual or single layer disc.
On your standalone, it's not a region encoding issue because CD-Rs don't have region codes. I have a friend with an old Sony and it's never played CD-Rs either. That's just the way they are (or at least some of them).
What I'm saying is that some Sonys won't play anything on a CD-R, so if it won't read an audio CD-R, and it will play regular audio CDs that means it isn't a Region Coding issue. That means it doesn't support the media at all.
I gotcha. I just figured that the difference, from the readers perspective, was that store purchased CDs were regionally encoded, while burnt CDRs were not. There must be some other difference between the two.
