The easiest way to see if there is a speed difference in ISO or File mode would be to try it yourself.What works best for one system may not be the same as someone elses! My Plextor PX-712 is locked at 2x but with the PlexTools you can enable speed read and you also need to disable the Silent Mode.Ripping time is 10 to 15 minutes on average.
I've posted on your website the same as I did on the link above here on AfterDawn.com asking more then the speed issue. Really it?s about one method vs. the other, File Mode or ISO Mode. Many here talk about ISO better then File and vice versa. I figured that since you are the author of DVD Decrypter, you could shed some ?Light,? no pun intended, on the subject to help settle this issue once and for all.
Wow i got hacked firmware for my pioneer A06 and it went from reading at 2X to 6X. I still think that is not as fast as I could push it but that is an AWESOME improvement.
Wow, I didn't know that. Your decrypter worked so good, I assumed it wasn't. I guess its the fact that decrypter checks speed read for you that makes it zip right out of the box, eh?
Light UK, could you shed some light on the rip speed difference between the last version and the current one? Is it in new disc protection needs?
I noticed with the new version it was definitely a little slower than the last on ripping. I reinstalled the last version, and it still seemed slow, until I checked the set speed box. I didn't think I needed to since it was (unhighlighted) set at MAX anyway. But I checked it, left it at max, and was back up to speed. This is definitely not my imagination though, as I ripped the same movie twice to be sure. My theory it that the speed problem isn't the version, but it is the set speed box being checked. Any thoughts?
By checking it, you're telling the program to issue a command to the drive to tell it to read at the chosen speed. Not all drives support it, and some just hang if you try - hence the reason it's not enabled by default.
If you're getting slow reads, it's because something else is telling your drive to read slower - i.e. PlexTools when doing a PI/PO scan - and then not resetting it to the original speed when it's done.
When you boot up from scratch the drive is set to 'max' by default.
